So, tritium is hard to come by on earth and is usualy generated in the atmosphere when cosmic rays hit it. Theres some thing like 3kg of natural tritium on earth.
So could we be scooping it from the atmospheres of planets? Depends on how much we need i guess?
You can make tritium in a breeder reactor using lithium. Lithium is alredy in game, perhaps fleet carriers will have a reactor on bord, that can procces lithium into tritium for use in the drives.
So jumping could simply require a store of lithium and time for the breeder to make enough tritium for a jump. I guess like a cool down.
Doesnt seem too bad as long as the amount of lithium required is not exessive or that it is used up slowly and this doesnt require constant resuply.
Perhaps lithium is about to go up in price due to demand..
Also tritium will replace hydrogen if it come into contact with it so there could be a potential hazard of fuel contamination in our fusion drives from contact with fleet carrier fuel? It also can pass thrugh metals and can change there properties.. corosion? Perhaps even against meta alloys?
So could we be scooping it from the atmospheres of planets? Depends on how much we need i guess?
You can make tritium in a breeder reactor using lithium. Lithium is alredy in game, perhaps fleet carriers will have a reactor on bord, that can procces lithium into tritium for use in the drives.
So jumping could simply require a store of lithium and time for the breeder to make enough tritium for a jump. I guess like a cool down.
Doesnt seem too bad as long as the amount of lithium required is not exessive or that it is used up slowly and this doesnt require constant resuply.
Perhaps lithium is about to go up in price due to demand..
Also tritium will replace hydrogen if it come into contact with it so there could be a potential hazard of fuel contamination in our fusion drives from contact with fleet carrier fuel? It also can pass thrugh metals and can change there properties.. corosion? Perhaps even against meta alloys?
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