On 6/23/2011 11:49 PM, Alain wrote:
> The fuel tanks for the attitude thrusters are relatively small as they
> are relatively rarely used, and for only short times. They can logicaly
> be located inside the outer shell.
>
> Get rid of the solar pannels? Why?
> Solar energy is the ONLY resource that is not scarse up there. You want
> to get as much of it as possible. For that reason, I think that the
> solar pannels sould be at least 10 to 100 times larger.
> Having extra energy allows for beter recycling of the air and water,
> improve food production and greatly helps producing the manufactured
> goods you need. It can also help with your trusters by using ion based
> thrusters or chimical thrusters fitted with some overheating device to
> greatly increase ejection speed, and thus, get more thrust from the same
> amount of propellant. Use smaller fuel storage, and make it last much,
> much longer.
>
>
>
> Alain

Well,  I just thought both a reactor and solar panels were a bit redundant.


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