> On Feb 12, 2016, at 8:21 AM, Jeffrey Schwartz <xxxxxx@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> T5 explicitly rules out the H2 Shield idea.
>

Reason enough for me to view T5 with a jaundiced eye personally, because it’s sticking to a paradigm that’s logically broken, because [Topol] Traditiooooon! Tradition! [/Topol]

> Says that running the power plant in Jump Charge mode takes it to
> several orders of magnitude lower efficency, and lots of LH2 are
> vented for cooling.

The problem is that make no goddamn sense at all.

Running a fusion plant at ‘several orders of magnitude lower efficiency’ PRODUCES LESS ENERGY not more.

This isn’t like turning on an afterburner on a jet. (which I’m pretty certain is the kind of thing Marc’s trying to emulate here)

That doesn’t reduce the efficiency of a jet engine, it merely increases the thrust by turning the tailpipe into a crude, jet-fuel rocket on top of the existing jet engine.

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