re: Thruster Plates + G-Hours
In reply to #6963 Thruster Plates + G-Hours by zcfbj00
zcfbj00 writes:
> Yet another questionette for you all. I notice that Thruster Plates do
> not require fuel (directly) to operate - they just burn up power plant
> fuel when they draw their operating power. Since they don't themselves
> burn any fuel like HEPlaR does, then does this mean that the concept of
> G-Hours goes out of the proverbial window for Thruster Plates?
Thruster plates supply thrust as long as you feed them juice, without
the need of reaction mass. They have effectively unlimited g-hours. These
are the reactionless drives from classic/Mega Traveller.
> I did a bit of calculating, and found that at TL 12, Fusion Power plants
> use 0.15 kl of fuel per year (actually, I wonder if this is the fuel
> consumption per kl of power plant, and not for the plant as a whole).
That's the fuel consumption per year per MW.
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