Engineers Make Heat Sinks Standard Issue?

[Muetdhiver]

"Fuel" sounded volatile. Why not vent it through the thrusters as additional boost?

Indeed, it could be vented through the thrusters (providing a little bit extra thrust in normal operation, but if the thrusters are down,
it could work nicely as an emergency propulsion method).

In short :
Boiling up the H2 fuel to cool the ship acts as a weak heat sink and provide a thruster mini-boost that reaches 50% of the ship max speed (i.e. blue zone).
It works even with broken thrusters (emergency thrust) and if the ship speed is above 50% (blue zone) it does nothing to the ship speed.

 

[Sooden]

"Fuel" sounded volatile. Why not vent it through the thrusters as additional boost?

i don't think its used that way. if it is hydrogen, i don't think they are using its like rocket fuel (just see how impractical that is in rockets . so it's used in fusion and then the energy created from that powers another function (maybe xenon gas/ion drive). Venting hydrogen though the thrusts would lower performance

 

[VR Jay Le Chardon]

Much better idea (IMO) :

give the ability to vent your H2 fuel as an emergency cooling measure (e.g. cannot cool the ship below 50% heat, and is much less efficient than a heat sink).
Tie the amount to the Power Plant size, and voilà !

Extra goodness : make the same mechanic provide some amount of thrust when the thrusters are down (cold gas emergency propulsion). Something like a mini-boost,
but only able to reach a fraction of your normal speed.

This, make this happen, maybe slap some mods with it too.

"Fuel" sounded volatile. Why not vent it through the thrusters as additional boost?

i don't think its used that way. if it is hydrogen, i don't think they are using its like rocket fuel (just see how impractical that is in rockets . so it's used in fusion and then the energy created from that powers another function (maybe xenon gas/ion drive). Venting hydrogen though the thrusts would lower performance

In my mind I imagine the thrusters being hall effect thrusters, spitting out jets of electromagnetically accelerated plasma (powerplant byproducts). I imagine the power demand of creating the electromagnetic field puts load on the powerplant which in turn produces extra exhaust plasma which the hall effect thrusters accelerate to create the force to propel the ship. So the idea of using liquid hydrogen, heating it up to a gas and taking some heat out of the ships systems then using the resultant now hot hydrogen gas as additional propellant makes perfect sense to me.

 

[Bartizan]

I don't see any reason they should be standard. For one thing, I have never really "needed" one to survive outside of countering the effects of SCB (which was an outrageously dumb change and an argument for another time). I Have explored more than 400k lys and never "needed" one in all those jumps. I have however used them liberally in smuggling and for that reason costing me utility space and buying sinks feels pretty balanced to me.

 

[Rankaze]

What space ship wouldn't have this safety measure installed in their ships? Considering you jump from STAR TO STAR involved massive amounts of heat in this galaxy really it is absurd thinking you should travel without one.

It would like car dealers selling a car without a spare tire or maybe safety features like an airbag.

The nerfing of the amount of heat sinks needs to be fixed. But if there are 2 heat sinks standard then it isn't a big deal.

This will also open up one slot for people to use for utility. Then we could actually carry a variety of useful things.

I do my exploration in an Imperial Courier, which handles heat as poorly as any ship in the game. I don't carry heat sinks. Haven't missed them in the slighest. I do carry an AFMU as a precaution, but I've yet to need to use it.

 

[Quineloe]

You from Europe or something? In North America if you don't have a spare tired that comes with the car might as well drive on empty all the time because you are gambling...

What makes you think cars in Europe have no spare tires?

We have elevators too, you know?

 

[piercehead]

We have elevators too, you know?

We have lifts, dammit!

 

[Colonel Kenney]

I actually saw "bangers and gravy" in my local supermarket yesterday. Never ever saw that except in "English themed pubs" here before ever and now its becoming part of Canadian cuisine?

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What if there were 1 emergency heat sink system that wasn't as effective as a deployable one? The trade off is that it burns power and fuel like crazy so you can't keep it on but its there in a pinch. That would negate the scb / weapons issue.

Come on people in space in a space ship with no emergency heat vent system?