On Mon, Feb 15, 2016 at 9:04 AM, Jeffrey Schwartz <xxxxxx@gmail.com> wrote:

Then when you kick the reactor to "more power!" to charge the jump
drives, then even more LH2 is vented to dump heat.

Since antimatter powered ships, and collector powered ships are in
there, and there's jump grid vs jump bubble, this explanation makes a
lot more sense to me than the "Hydrogen Balloon" concept.

Except that - as several somebodies who know the actual math involved have pointed out repeatedly - simple water would work better as a heat sink, since it's denser (which is what you want in a heat sink) and MUCH less difficult to process/transport/manipulate than is liquid hydrogen.

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