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CT Only: CT power plant fuel formula

Just a thought but for the sake of completeness you should include GT, HT, GT:ISW, MgT or take out T20 as third party interpretation :)

Since T5 is the new definitive version of the OTU it should be included too (does it trump the lot?).
 
Just a thought but for the sake of completeness you should include GT, HT, GT:ISW, MgT or take out T20 as third party interpretation :)

Since T5 is the new definitive version of the OTU it should be included too (does it trump the lot?).

I don't know GT well enough, and I have such a low opinion of it, that I'm not willing to break out the GTCD and check.

So few people are even aware of HT that it's not worth the confusion inclusion would require.

T5 requires the PP at initiation; I don't know if it requires ongoing, and it's not a system I know well enough.
 
Mind, unrelated to the jump drive, losing your power plant and being stuck in space for 2 weeks without power, is likely a Bad Thing unless the air plant and life support can run off of exer-cycles.
 
Mind, unrelated to the jump drive, losing your power plant and being stuck in space for 2 weeks without power, is likely a Bad Thing unless the air plant and life support can run off of exer-cycles.

It works for Gilligan, it can work for Captain Jamison.
 
Mind, unrelated to the jump drive, losing your power plant and being stuck in space for 2 weeks without power, is likely a Bad Thing unless the air plant and life support can run off of exer-cycles.

There are techniques available today to extend the air supply aboard a disabled submarine that require little in the way of power. These include LiOH curtains from this manufacturer.

Oxygen levels may be a problem, but the life support system should include supplemental O2 tanks to bleed off into the ship's atmosphere. US submarines have the capability to both onload oxygen, and make their own supply through electrolysis of water.

Emergency low berths are an option, as they would allow the life support man-days to be extended. A few people (no more than six) kept awake can last quite a while on a minimal power system.

The way I see it, the power load from running life support, to include internal gravity control, is going to be pretty minimal compared to initiating jump or combat requirements. Those items would also be on a ship's vital power bus (things that if lost, the ship is really, indefinitely screwed, like :coffeegulp:.) The S8G reactor on an Ohioclass submarine has a rated power level of 45 MW from just the main engines. There are parallel mounted turbine generator sets for AC power that are slightly smaller (I was not a nuke). During normal operations, power availability was not an issue.

You might want Lance Armstrong emergency power generators for the lights if the powerplant goes out though.
 
That must be it, thanks for reminding me (been too stuck in 77 edition lately).

There was an extended malfunction article in a JTAS too if memory serves, wonder if it has anything to add?
 
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