Re: Cramped engine spaces

Cramped engine spaces.

This is perhaps a good idea in principle, George, but I think your math is
off.  Drives certianly do not take up their entire listed volume, but 50% is
a bit much to shave off.  I think working space is going to be a more
complicated function than just some percentage number.

Consider:  A huge battleship with a HUGE powerplant.  Does that mean that
50% of that huge volume is work space?

In it's simplest execution, imagine:  A spherical fusion plant with a series
of 3 meter cat walks running around it.  (In my opinion, that is about as
large an area as you could concievably use for repair work) Now for small
engines that would be more than 50% but with HUGE engines that would be much
less.  (I don't have my calculator here, but you can see how the numbers
would add up anyway)

Scott 2G Kellogg