On 12/31/2020 9:16 PM, Rupert Boleyn wrote: > > > On 01Jan2021 1253, Kurt Feltenberger wrote: >> A new video just dropped regarding fueling /Dilbar /(the largest >> yacht by volume/power)...and that is something that would get the >> ground crews at a starport talking... >> >> https://youtu.be/w2bdHMgk2vU >> >> (If my math is right...) >> Granted, fuel in Traveller is rather cheap (Cr500/ton). /Dilbar/ >> carries just above 1,000,000 liters of fuel, and if we use >> 13.5kliters = 1 ton, it is 74 tons of fuel, or Cr37,000. In the real >> world, that same 1m liters of fuel would cost ~$750k... > If you go by volume. If you go by mass it's about 830 tonnes, and will > cost ~KCr415. Yet, Traveller goes by volume... > By volume that fuel implies a 700 DTon J-1 ship, or a 350 DTon J-2, > 200 DTon J-3, 150 DTon J-4, 100 DTon J-5 or J-6. > > By mass, we get ~8,000 DTons at J-1, 4,000 at J-2, 2,500 at J-3, 2,000 > at J-4, 1,500 at J-5, and 1,000 at J-6. > > That feels a bit small using volume, assuming that a yacht will do > better than J-1. For the 'biggest yacht ever' it looks pretty good for > mass at J-2 or more, I think. It think it's going to be difficult to translate Dilbar directly into a Traveller analogue because we have nothing to use the volume that a J-drive or J-fuel would require. If we keep it as a non-starship, she would probably have something on the order of M3 or so, perhaps M4. -- Kurt Feltenberger xxxxxx@thepaw.org/xxxxxx@yahoo.com “Before today, I was scared to live, after today, I'm scared I'm not living enough." - Me
