On 11Oct2020 1356, xxxxxx@gmail.com wrote:
> If you have the time, as you can refuel from water, all you'd need is
> a bypass on the output of your scoops/fueling pumps to (instead of
> sending them to inboard fuel tank storage) send to tanks for Hydrogen
> in the cargo hold.
>
> You'd pay some time at fueling time on the planet or at the ice
> asteroid, but you'd spend less time between jumps so it's probably a
> net plus. Plus then you only need to store LH in the tanks - the O2 is
> emitted out of the ship by the purifiers.
>
> So fill up your tank, take the time to purify enough to fill your new
> inboard stowage vessel in the cargo hold, and off you go.
Ah, but for many ships the speed of refining incoming liquid to hydrogen
is much slower than the rate they can take in that liquid, especially if
they're just pumping water in from a lake. So if they can just take on
water and refine it as they move out to the jump point (and in jump if
it's for a second or third jump) it's quite a time saver.

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Rupert Boleyn <xxxxxx@gmail.com>