Re: [TML] Shipping Fuel Densely: Best way to do it? Rupert Boleyn 17 Jul 2017 10:36 UTC
On 17Jul2017 1756, Kelly St. Clair wrote: > My only concern is that you're going to wind up with a LOT of spare > carbon, which you're going to have to either process somehow and ship > it back on the supply ships, or blow it out into space - in which > case, your station will soon end up surrounded by a giant cloud of > soot. Well, those ships probably aren't carrying much else. Also, there's plenty of oxygen too, so you could choose to be surrounded in a cloud of CO2 instead. :) I expect you'd form the carbon into pellets and shove it away along a set vector at low velocity, and mark that vector as "don't fly your ship here". In a few million years somebeing will find them and wonder what the hell a few million tons of elemental carbon is doing slowly drifting through interstellar space like that. -- Rupert Boleyn <xxxxxx@gmail.com> Chief Assistant to the Assistant Chief