Timeline for How much fuel does a ship use in the Expanse?
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| Apr 13, 2017 at 12:43 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| Mar 22, 2017 at 16:54 | comment | added | RobertF | +1 I was thinking of matter-antimatter engines as well. Presently, antimatter created in particle accelerators is very expensive to produce and store, but who knows several hundred years from now? | |
| Aug 10, 2016 at 10:52 | comment | added | Winchell Chung | The rocket engine list link you supplied has a brief discussion of the Eastern drive. projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/… | |
| Aug 10, 2016 at 10:20 | comment | added | tobiasvl | The interstellar generation ship bound for Tau Ceti was not supposed to continuously burn like the other Epstein drive outfitted ships in the series (which accelerate for half the journey, flip, and then decelerate) – it was instead designed to burn until it reached a certain speed, cut the drive, and then spin up the main section of the ship to create centrifugal "gravity". | |
| Jul 19, 2016 at 1:13 | history | edited | Hypnosifl | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jul 19, 2016 at 1:12 | comment | added | Hypnosifl | Well, the page on the nuclear salt water reaction engine does preface the idea of 90% enriched uranium by saying "Zubrin then goes on to speculate about a more advanced version of the NSWR, suitable for insterstellar travel." Maybe I was too hasty in ruling out antimatter on the basis of interstellar travel (I'll edit that line), but it still seems like a ridiculously advanced technology given what I've seen in summaries of the overall tech level of The Expanse series. | |
| Jul 19, 2016 at 0:49 | comment | added | Mattias | But there was an interstellar ship in the story that was under construction for Tau Ceti. Perhaps antimatter is still on the table. | |
| Jul 18, 2016 at 23:25 | history | edited | Hypnosifl | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jul 18, 2016 at 22:58 | history | answered | Hypnosifl | CC BY-SA 3.0 |