New Kind of Starship Fuel page 1

ranger2261

September 3rd, 2006, 04:08 PM

I recently ran into a discussion about Dihydrgen Monoxide.

Could this be a new source of fuel for a REAL Traveller Jump Drive???

Comments are welcome.

web page (http://www.dhmo.org/facts.html)

mike wightman

September 3rd, 2006, 04:16 PM

;)

Andrew Boulton

September 3rd, 2006, 04:16 PM

Ooh, that's nasty stuff, that is. Far too dangerous.

far-trader

September 3rd, 2006, 04:31 PM

I think mono-hydrazine has more power and no nasty addictive high or the other problems ;)

RainOfSteel

September 3rd, 2006, 10:07 PM

</font> "Often associated with killer cyclones in the U.S. Midwest and elsewhere."</font>Say what?

far-trader

September 3rd, 2006, 10:35 PM

Yeah, my sense of the bizarre was climbing all through skimming it. The cyclones remark really tipped the hand I think.

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I wonder if anyone is donating money to the ADHMO fund?

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parmasson

September 3rd, 2006, 11:25 PM

Listen, this stuff is so dangerous that rockets store its component elements in separate tanks for safety.

An average of nine people per day die of this substance.

Don’t mess with it if you know what is good for you.

RainOfSteel

September 3rd, 2006, 11:53 PM

Originally posted by Kurega Gikur:
Don’t mess with it if you know what is good for you. Oh, I'm not going to mess with it.

But upon sighting a tornado, my first thought is not going to be, "Blast! They should have kept a tighter rein on that DHMO!"

Icosahedron

September 4th, 2006, 03:31 AM

Originally posted by ranger2261:
I recently ran into a discussion about Dihydrgen Monoxide.

Could this be a new source of fuel for a REAL Traveller Jump Drive???

Comments are welcome.
Two comments:

1. Although a fuel like this might work in the Traveller Universe, I'm not sure that it occurs in sufficient quantities to be a viable fuel source in the real universe.

2. It's a sobering reflection on the way that pseudo-scientific spin can undermine real science. (It is perhaps fortunate that this material was not posted here a few weeks ago! :D )
I could easily believe that 90% of the US population would sign up to ban the stuff :rolleyes: - It's worrying. :eek:

aramis

September 5th, 2006, 12:48 AM

Not common enough? Stuff's practically everywhere!

Icosahedron

September 5th, 2006, 06:30 AM

But not necessarily in a readily useable and cost-effective form for filling your fuel tanks. In Traveller, you don't even have to figure out what to do with hundreds of kilograms of Sodium Chloride, let alone all the other potential contaminants! It's probably the scooping and filtering systems that would let you down in real life.

TheEngineer

September 5th, 2006, 07:03 AM

Hi !

Whats a "REAL Traveller Jump Drive" ? smile.gif

Anyway I could not think of any chemical fuel, which would be able to compete with fusion....

TE