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Thread: RADIOACTIVE QUANDRY

Nyxrixix
Sat Oct 16, 2004 1:05 am
#1

Im on Ahazi, im confused as to why a BER 14 fusion comes out to an actual rate of approx. 0.43

Is this normal? Doesit matter where you out the fusion gen?
Elyssa
Sat Oct 16, 2004 2:40 am
#2

Yes, you have to put it on a high concentration of radioactives.

Basically BER x Concentration = Units extracted per minute.


On a 100% concentration, you'd pull 14 units per min.

On a 50%, you'd pull 7.


I've always thought the term "fusion generator" was a misnomer since it does not actually generate power.

It should be more correctly called a "radioactive harvester"



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Guruweaver
Sat Oct 16, 2004 5:16 am
#3

Hehe!

The Fusion Generator has always been a pet peeve of mine. Fusion doesn't use radioactives in the really real world. It'd make a lot more sense for it to be on a vein of Water (which is a whole 'nother rant) to get heavy water (deuterium) or on a gas vein to get He3. Both of those elements would serve nicely in a fusion plant. Radioactives (heavy elements) do well in a fission plant, like our nuclear power plants.

But this is SWG. Maybe in the SWG world fusion works off of heavy elements. /shrug


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