Re: Best choice of FTL fuel?

Peter Knutsen wrote:

Too make it sufficiently exoticand interesting, why not try for a
catalyzed reaction of something (H or He?) to strange matter?
Catalyst could be a stable transuran element, that is very scarce
and only found in interesting locations in mineable quantities.

What interesting locations would those be?

Whatever gets your story along best: comets (only old, outgassed comets,
not so easy to detect?), the metallic core of gas giants (interesting
mining technology here), sites that have been shielded from the (a) sun
for millions of "years" (only tide-locked planets) etc.

Also, you're suggesting manufactured fuel, which makes "wilderness
refuelling" impossible.

You can have your H or He by ramscoop, skimming of gas giants, mining of
comets or whatever. It is the rare catalyst, that must be prospected
for, and then refined, that makes it interesting. To do something like
FTL (and that is equivalent to time machines, afaik) you need strange
matter to build a wormhole. Your drive is made possible by a genius who
miniaturized it.

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Mit freundlichem Gruß,

Klaus Meinhard


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