Was I asking a question in the manner that endorses renewable fuel?

Sorry if I did that, english is not my native!

CariElf Crystal Power!
Or how about Bradamantium.

Yes,thank you for clearing it up, I agree with you that starships needs a fuel, and regarding the posted article I was not just aiming at the game, that's why I like Deuterium answer (it appears in Star Trek, but I never thought of it as possible fuel for extremely fast ships in the real world).

I don't care about fuel usage in this game since I didn't made ships that could go faster then 6 moves per turn, but I agree it would be more strategic if they put that part in, and if they put fuel in the game they can call it whatever they want. "Poop" can do it if you ask me!

It wasn't deuterium. It was dilithium in Star Trek.

Getting back to reality, deuterium must be our next fuel source because there's nothing else. Petroleum powers everything.

The moon is practically made of deuterium and uranium. The big problem is that to get it, we need to scoop up the surface, heat the sand and dump it back out.

With the currently scarred and ragged face of the moon, a full moon is 10 times brighter than any other phase. Imagine if corporate America digs up the entire surface to make it smooth. Some times of the month would be bright as day.

Anything for Haliburton...

deuterium must be our next fuel source because there's nothing else

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We're researching this here @ DU, it's an explosive wax, the only problem is that it's not *as* combustible as fossil fuels. (It's something NASA uses in their rocket fuels)

It wasn't deuterium. It was dilithium in Star Trek.

Actually, Star Trek warp engines were powered by antimatter, and it was gathered as they traveled. Dilithium crystals were used as a critical part of the fuel control system; the crystals could "burn out" if they were overstressed, but they weren't the source of the power.

As for the "speed problem" in the game, why not just make the ship's speed proportional to the square root of the total number of engines points installed? This is simple from an implementation and usage point of view. (The same thing is already done for shield power.)

Also, it is a bit more reflective of other vehicles people are used to. If the speed of real vehicles were directly proportional to their power, you'd have a "speed problem" in real life too. Tanks, ships and planes may have up to ten times the power today of their WW2 counterparts, but they don't really go ten times as fast. Nothing actually works that way. If you swap out a 100 horsepower engine from an economy car that can go 100 mph, and put in a 400 horsepower racing engine, of course it won't then be able to go 400 miles an hour; it will only go about twice as fast (assuming it doesn't fall apart.) And it takes about sixteen times as much power for a ship to go 40 miles an hour as it does to go 10 miles an hour. That's also why slowing down saves so much fuel.

Maybe not everyone is familiar with the math behind this, but it's what we are intuitively used to. And a system like this would help keep the high-end ship speeds in GalCiv2 from getting completely out of hand.

The capitalist forces of evil are at work in the field of deuterium. Check today's Wired: WWW Link">Link The senator is a motherfrakkin troll. Check his comments on why we must go to the moon.

Actually, there's deuterium in seawater -- a LOT of it. The article talks about getting something called "helium-3" from the moon, which is a bit different. As for why we might want that instead of deuterium (or "hydrogen-2") in potential fusion reactors, that's a purely theoretical argument at this stage. At any rate, establishing a moonbase today based on this kind of speculation would be pretty darned goofy.

At any rate, establishing a moonbase today based on this kind of speculation would be pretty darned goofy.

The US hasn't demonstrated rational foresight on these kind of things. Bush pulled out of the Outer Space Treaty of 1969 and one of his first acts was to establish the Space Forces as a new branch of the Armed Services.

The US will take Antarctica, militarize space and take the moon. All by force, of course, because force is profitable.

Keynesian economics... breaking things is good for the economy. Throw a rock at a shop window and you serve your neighbors. Somebody needs to provide wood for temporary security. Somebody needs to make the glass. Somebody needs to repair the frame. Somebody needs to install it. Scale it up to Iraq and "nation building" in general.

That's our government at work.

Wheel, that second one was great!

Wheeloffire takes a bow.

Thank you, thank you.

I'm surprised that Brad did not expect players to build ships faster than 8 moves per turn.

This puzzled me too when I read his reply. Guess I never thought to ask the question though. That was why I figured the easiest work around would be to throw in a power supply. But overall, it is strange that he wouldn't have foreseen this.

DRAG THEM ALL OUT OF WASHINGTON AND SHOOT THEM AS WAR CRIMINALS AND ENEMIES OF THE STATE, period. Whoa Whoa Whoa there big fella, don't go and get your panties all in a bunch! You know, some of us actually live and work there and have nothing to do with politics.

Okay, I should have been a little more specific... drag the politicians, their intern sex slaves, and the crack heads out of Washington and shoot them as war criminals and enemies of the state. Is that better now?

You can get to full bird (colonel) on merit alone. After that, it's all politics. That's how most of the government once worked. Until the upper levels, it's too insane to use politics as a job test.

I tend to agree with this part Wheel. Petty or part-time politics can start as low as E-7 in some branches though.

And a tidbit of info since we are talking about fuel...

USS Kitty Hawk would burn 1 gallon of fuel for every foot it traveled at 21 knots.