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Death 999
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We did. You did. Yes we can. No.
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Magnets can be used to transduce energy from mechanical to electrical. If you didn't have a mechanical power source, your magnets will not be an electrical power source.
The magnets in the original ship were not even being used for power generation. They were specifically being used for something that antimatter cannot be -- unless, of course you make the magnets out of the antimatter. And unless as EP said the entire ship is made of antimatter, it isn't going to be easy to hold onto those magnets.
So, if you want to use antimatter, the only place it might fit would be in the power systems, which in the original were some sort of nuclear. Even then, nuclear might be a better choice, due to the inefficiencies of generating antimatter.
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SweetSassyMolassy
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Yeah, it took me until my last post to realize that the magnets/electricity weren't used as a power system for the ship, and I guess are some kind of weapon.
Obviously the magnets aren't creating energy from nowhere, when I said "producing" I was just simplifying the argument. The energy I was referring to was just the energy from the electric current. In the same way, it's easier to say that a power plant "puts out" or "produces" a certain amount of energy, but of course it doesn't originate in the power plant.
So, what I meant to say 10 posts ago was that the nuclear pods in the back of the ship would be cooler if they were anti-matter. My comment doesn't have a lot of ground anymore though. In 2155, hopefully we will have advanced far enough in technology to utilize anti-matter's power. It would be really hard to get to sub-light speed using just nuclear power.
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« Last Edit: June 19, 2008, 11:49:22 pm by SweetSassyMolassy »
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I am not always understand about what you speak, unfortunately.
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Shiver
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Welcometo the UQM! It's what we do best here.
This, my friends, is the sterling attitude that made SCDB what it is today.
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RTyp06
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Hope this isn't too small...
Ships I made for modding "Star Control Online" beta and various other projects.
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« Last Edit: June 20, 2008, 11:54:13 pm by RTyp06 »
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