On 12 Feb 2016 at 9:36, Kelly St. Clair wrote:
> Most of the attempted explanations/handwaves for "what do they DO with
> all that H2?" run into the problem that, if one accepts [hypothesis],
> there's almost always some way to "fuel" a jump which is MUCH superior
> to lugging around a substantial fraction of the ship's volume in LHyd.
> "Breaking" that arbitrary rule has significant second-order effects on
> military capabilities, merchant traffic and economics, etc etc.

I go with the 'a jump drive is made up of a mess of capacitors and other stuff'
explanation, and assume that the jump 'fuel' is used to create a 'jump bubble' and to
maintain it during jump (so some is used on entry, and the rest over the course of the
jump).

It avoids the whole question of special reactors and so on.