"Well, to give you an idea of the sort of energies we could get out of this stuff, both of those batteries can provide something like 500 kilowatts, continuously, for 5 hours. Five of them would finish LeMans without stopping. The actual metal inside them's only about the size of a AA battery. It's an order of magntitude below nuclear, but still massively higher than chemical reactions.
All the rest is there just to keep that and the power systems from melting. If that all came out at once - well - it'd be a bit of a bang alright but it's self-regulating. The hotter it gets, the more it expands and the reaction throttles down to a safe level. Just by regulating the temperature, the load and the inducer coil we can charge it and throttle it pretty good even without superconductors. We used them to power motoroids, and a few other little things. It completely dominated even the best handwaved power supplies.
I didn't know that each battery had more gate metal in it than had been recovered from just about anywhere else to that point. I mean, nobody else had really worked with macro-scale amounts of the stuff since all the scientists and archeologists had been too afraid of damaging the intact gates to take more than the slightest shavings.
The first time on Arcadia, we brought back a chunk wighing about 450 kilos. On that mission, we brought back ni - uhm - six tons or so but we ended up having to give that away because the Federation didn't like us doing that, and diplomancy and all that. I think it went out to the usual research people after that. They probably had a cat....
And we sold about fifteen Judy motoroids, with two batteries each, to the Public before the lid got popped off. So yea, fifteen people now own genuine 5-gram pieces of Arcadia Tannhauser gate."
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All the rest is there just to keep that and the power systems from melting. If that all came out at once - well - it'd be a bit of a bang alright but it's self-regulating. The hotter it gets, the more it expands and the reaction throttles down to a safe level. Just by regulating the temperature, the load and the inducer coil we can charge it and throttle it pretty good even without superconductors. We used them to power motoroids, and a few other little things. It completely dominated even the best handwaved power supplies.
I didn't know that each battery had more gate metal in it than had been recovered from just about anywhere else to that point. I mean, nobody else had really worked with macro-scale amounts of the stuff since all the scientists and archeologists had been too afraid of damaging the intact gates to take more than the slightest shavings.
The first time on Arcadia, we brought back a chunk wighing about 450 kilos. On that mission, we brought back ni - uhm - six tons or so but we ended up having to give that away because the Federation didn't like us doing that, and diplomancy and all that. I think it went out to the usual research people after that. They probably had a cat....
And we sold about fifteen Judy motoroids, with two batteries each, to the Public before the lid got popped off. So yea, fifteen people now own genuine 5-gram pieces of Arcadia Tannhauser gate."
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