Ship nuclear engine problems

[KUBANA]

*looks at Neutron Star that was in Maine for the longest time*

Damn I must have missed that one ... I know only about one - somewhere in Omegas near Corsairs ... weird scary and nice sight

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"Collecting Admin quotes. So I gave him a Moderator one." -Moveit56
"Tractorlancer" -Jansen
"I'm higher than aerelm's ping. ~Narc
"Some random quote" -mwerte
LWB is the bestest! ~ Moveit56
"Will you be my minion? -Mrs. Altejago
No, he's mine ~Snoopy
Wow, the Team's memory desk in this sig? K. I'm in ~ Dimon

[Lonely_Ghost]

Omega 41 system. There is a Neutron Star.

P.S.
Also, don't rly look much on things like: How we could make a wormhole and travel in the hell know where. Half of Discovery's stuff is more real, that some things, which could be heared from those freaking sciencists.

[Karst]

Not sure what the law says about it but Deuterium and Helium-3 rather sound like fusion generators than fission generators. That would make more sense aswell, I guess, since Fusion Generators should be more advanced and useful than fission ones. But then again, I could be wrong.

Well I cannot disagree with that cause I don't have slightest idea how fusion works

Fusion is the opposite of fission, the nuclear reaction used in current nuclear power plants (and most nuclear weapons).
Fission, that is breaking up large nuclei, releases energy because the larger a nucleus, the larger the electromagnetic force that pushes the nucleus' protons apart relative to the strong nuclear force that keeps nucleons together (because the electromagnetic force has greater range than the strong nuclear force and thus increases with the number of protons in a nucleus).
Inversely, fusion (fusing nuclei together to form a heavier element) creates energy because the strong nuclear force dominates relative to electromagnetic repulsion when dealing with small nuclei.
Thus, the larger a nucleus, the less energy is required for fission, and the smaller a nucleus, the less energy is required for fusion (and vice versa). This balance reaches the center somewhere around nuclei the size of iron, which essentially doesn't release energy by either fusion or fission.
Fusion reactors in freelancer therefor use small nuclei in the form of H-fuel (H-2 and He-3) while fission reactors use MOX (Uranium and Plutonium).

But aside from all of that, it's a sci-fi game. Don't try to bring too much actual science into it.

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[KUBANA]

I just don't understand why still not the antimatter? ... D'ooh

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Well I think I will be collecting these admin quotes as my signature
"Collecting Admin quotes. So I gave him a Moderator one." -Moveit56
"Tractorlancer" -Jansen
"I'm higher than aerelm's ping. ~Narc
"Some random quote" -mwerte
LWB is the bestest! ~ Moveit56
"Will you be my minion? -Mrs. Altejago
No, he's mine ~Snoopy
Wow, the Team's memory desk in this sig? K. I'm in ~ Dimon

[Remnant]

62.5 trillion US dollars to make a gram of antihydrogen in 1999. That number has not changed very much.

Quite frankly, Antimatter is extremely expensive. Very. Very. VERY expensive. Why make a reactor out of that, if you have fission or fusion?

[Occam Razor]

I just don't understand why still not the antimatter? ... D'ooh

Well. I do not think antimatter is really used in Sirius for energy generation. It is used in SNACs, as their name states, and probably in other weapons.

The problem with using antimatter to produce energy is that it doesn't really appear in the nature. That means you have to create it artificially, which requires even more power than you can get out of it. That means it's only viable as explosive, but not really as energy generator. I could imagine using it as energy storage, but that's just an idea.

Since you can find Deuterium and Helium-3 in nature, Fusion generators should be way more efficient as energy generators.

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René Descartes

[KUBANA]

Well according to some theories Antimatter is present in its natural form in every planet's radiation belts

There are even theories that want to try to harvest it

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250 pixels is the maximum height for sigs. That CR logo was a bit bigger. Maybe resize the pic? -Zuke

Well I think I will be collecting these admin quotes as my signature
"Collecting Admin quotes. So I gave him a Moderator one." -Moveit56
"Tractorlancer" -Jansen
"I'm higher than aerelm's ping. ~Narc
"Some random quote" -mwerte
LWB is the bestest! ~ Moveit56
"Will you be my minion? -Mrs. Altejago
No, he's mine ~Snoopy
Wow, the Team's memory desk in this sig? K. I'm in ~ Dimon

[Occam Razor]

Well according to some theories Antimatter is present in its natural form in every planet's radiation belts

There are even theories that want to try to harvest it

Possible, but it would probably still be more expensive and less cost-efficient than simply getting uranium and plutonium from planets and Helium-3 and Deuterium from nebulae.

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"Common sense is the best distributed commodity in the world, for every man is convinced that he is well supplied with it."
René Descartes

[KUBANA]

*looks at Neutron Star that was in Maine for the longest time*

Well I personally think that in few years the production might not be so costly and hopefully we will use antimatter as an energy source

Hopefully not in weapon industry - god save us

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http://sig.grumpybumpers.com/host/aelar.gif
250 pixels is the maximum height for sigs. That CR logo was a bit bigger. Maybe resize the pic? -Zuke

Well I think I will be collecting these admin quotes as my signature
"Collecting Admin quotes. So I gave him a Moderator one." -Moveit56
"Tractorlancer" -Jansen
"I'm higher than aerelm's ping. ~Narc
"Some random quote" -mwerte
LWB is the bestest! ~ Moveit56
"Will you be my minion? -Mrs. Altejago
No, he's mine ~Snoopy
Wow, the Team's memory desk in this sig? K. I'm in ~ Dimon

[Highland Laddie]

Here comes new point - some of the commodities are totally worthless to transport (Oxygen, Food rations, Water)

not worthless to PoBs.