On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 5:30 AM, DataPacRat <[email protected]> wrote:
> P&P: 54,054-kWs advanced battery Here's a simple thought on improvement: Instead of just having a single 20-lb, .2 cf battery, have two modular sockets, each of which can accept a module containing such a battery, allowing for more flexibility about swapping them in and out, having one charge from the super-blanket while the prosthetic is being used elsewhere and so on. This also potentially allows for replacing one of the batteries with a RTG or NPU. At TL9, an NPU fitting that slot would generate 1.67 kW, last one year, and cost $20k; an RTG would generate 1 kW, last 14 years, and cost $2k. The current build uses up to 1 kW for the legs, .1 kW for life-support, and .05 kW for the tail motor, so the NPU would cover all of that and then some. The RTG would cover almost everything, as long as the legs were only used at up to .85 kW - to run flat out would mean having to rely on a battery for life-support. And if I end up throwing in a small AESA, or other power-using equipment, there would be further power-based tradeoffs. And, of course, there would be a few in-play issues that aren't quite covered by Vehicles, such as the legal and social consequences of walking around with a "nuke in her butt". (The radiological consequences are less of a concern, as Vehicles assumes reasonable shielding, and outside Earth's atmosphere people pick up about 20 rads a year without shielding, and the setting includes radiation treatments from 4e's Bio-Tech.) Thank you for your time, -- DataPacRat lu .iacu'i ma krinu lo du'u .ei mi krici la'e di'u li'u traji lo ka vajni fo lo preti _______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l
