Spinward Flow
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Ever heard of a heat pump?Where does the energy come from to create this grav field.
There is not enough energy going into the grav m-drive from the power plant to move the ship, so the grav m-drive has to be getting energy via some other mechanism
Either
the EP needs redefining to TW instead of MW
or
the grav m0drive is tapping energy via a mechanism that we can not explain, but requires a few MW to couple with
or
magic multidimensional handwavium
Y'know, a device that can move 300 watts of heat energy (from here to there) at a cost of only 60 watts of energy expended in the process (for example). Spending 60 watts to shift 300 watts of heat (in this example) would be considered "500% efficient" (because 300/60=5) in a heating application, relative to ... say ... a resistive heating element, that would need to spend something like ~300 watts of energy expended to add ~300 watts of heat energy and would be considered "100% efficient" (because 300/300=1).
So it's possible, with heat energy, to "move" more heat energy than it costs to perform that motion.
For those who think this heat pump math is bogus, understand that this process is EXACTLY how modern refrigerator/freezers work. They pull the heat from inside a confined (insulated) space and move that heat "outside" the unit.
Additionally, heat pumps can "work both ways" (meaning they can be reversible) to move heat energy IN or OUT of a confined space/system.
Now, this is going to sound EXTREMELY STRANGE ... but bear with me for a moment through this analogy I'm about to make.
What would a gravitic pump look like?
Instead of "moving heat energy" around ... you're instead "moving gravitic energy" around ... using the gravitic tech equivalent to a heat pump.
And just like with a heat pump, a "gravitic pump" that shifts gravitic energies around is going to have a particular "operating range" within which it operates relatively efficiently, but there are "boundaries" beyond which the "grav pump" stops being efficient enough to do its job as expected ... much like how a heat pump will struggle to operate once the thermal load exceeds the bounds of design tolerances.
Let's call that "gravitic pump" efficiency cutoff point somewhere around, say ... 1000D from the nearest gravity well mass ... and call it a day.
No?
The idea of being able to "pump gravity" around the same way that it's possible to "pump water" or even "pump heat" around is "can't stop laughing" ridiculous beyond belief?
![Rolling on the floor laughing :rofl: 🤣](https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f923.png)
Well they laughed at Fulton.
Ha ha ha ha!
And then the laughing stopped.