It is 'naturally occuring'
But it has quite a short half-life and is continually generated as already mentioned.
What's the most efficient way to mine Tritium?
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But it has quite a short half-life and is continually generated as already mentioned.
If we only had nuclear reactors to produce this on our carriers.
if we had nuclear reacters we wouldnt need tritium a couple of lumps of uraniam would power the fc.or have i missed a point,,mm i think i have lol,o well.
We do have nuclear reactors. It’s just fusion reactors in Elite, rather than fission reactors as we currently have them on Earth.
It’s complicated not least by the fact that it only has a half life of around 12 years, but it can show up as a trace bi-product of some fission reactions so it can be artificial as well as the natural version.
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What's the most efficient way to mine Tritium?
The jump drive doesn't just need electricity, so not nuclear power, however tritium is produced that way. We should be able to grind out some engineering to have a tritium generator installed, which would reduce our tritium use but not actually put tritium itself in our fuel tank per se.
Or we could steal it from settlements somehow.
Did you test this on last live version ? This was removed a year ago.
Yes it works! But pay attention I am talking specifically about subsurface deposit not deep core mining.
Yes. It was some update when holes with 0% were remaining between relogs. That time it was not spawning subsurface. Now holes disappear, I can confirm it. So possibly, relog works again. But I wouldn't relay on it. As it looks like they made regression in between patches and will fix it.
I remember us similarly musing if mats were found in geologically plausible places but I'm no geologist. In the end the procgen doesnt work like that. We could have saved a lot of useless testing if we had known. The spawn type indicates cosmic debris deposits and so it's actually not really a geological issue. Is astrogeology a thing? I know these people are sought for explanations for Mars, Europa and Titan e.g.
Yes, I remember too when subsurface deposits would stay at 0% and then NOT disappear, they were so annoying because there was confusion between the 0% subsurface deposits that stayed between local contact and the other subsurface deposits that you had to finish extracting instead, but even then, I'm sorry to contradict you, but I remember that they still regenerated anyway, they always regenerate, even when they are not fully extracted, they still regenerate, I don't honestly remember if in that case instead of going back to the main menu you had to instead exit the game and restart it (as with HGEs) but I remember very well that they regenerated.
For now it works, in the future we don't know... I honestly am not a very experienced miner or even a very passionate one, I just did it to try it out, to relax (mining is very relaxing... almost asmr
), but it is not one of my main activities. It's kind of a thing when they raced to the nuclear bomb in WW2, but I think Deuterium the isotope sibling of Tritium was key there. Norsk Hydro was biggest producer and so spies and commandos from both sides faced off for securing an advantage in Norway. The stuff movies are made out of.
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Hydrogen is stable and has one proton and one electron and is common.
Deuterium is stable and has one proton, one neutron and one electron also known as heavy hydrogen or heavy water when combined with oxygen and is rare.
Yes, full restart of the game was never beaten. Most devs could do - block re-logs to the main menu in many areas. For me, game restart was too much of clicks. So I never did that. It's immersion breaker.
Mining tritium, Worst part about owning a carrier, days spent mining for seconds of flight. I dont really mind it, but finding good spots is pointless because your never there.
40 Tons an hour on a mid size hotspot. Best ive managed is 60 tons in one hour.
Slow sendentary and thank god for Netrflix and youtube
40 Tons an hour on a mid size hotspot. Best ive managed is 60 tons in one hour.
Slow sendentary and thank god for Netrflix and youtube
Dont forget subsurface mining! That speeds things up substantially.
Who mines tritium for their carrier? You just put a request for it in your market with a reasonable price. All the guys who like mining fill it up for you. I've never minede any tritium yet in many thousands of hours playing the game since I got my fleet carrier. I suppose it would be different if you went into deep space.
Those of us that don't spend all our time cluttering up the bubble
Gross! Buying Tritium...
My FCs run on 100% stolen Tritium!