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Subject: what kind of fuel do the UNSC ships use?
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well probably not gas because its limited but there might be gas on other planets and ive never seen any solar panels so..?

  • 12.24.2010 9:53 PM PDT

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Nuclear fusion reactors I believe. If not a futuristic version of that.

  • 12.24.2010 9:58 PM PDT

I don't care. I really don't.

Gas is outdated nowadays, we are just too arrogant to change. They use Fusion Reactors for power and convert that energy into thrust for moevment and keep it electrical for everything else.

  • 12.24.2010 10:02 PM PDT

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However I do believe a great many of the UNSC's vehicles can run on nearly anything or at least the warthog can. Want to run it on hydrogen? Sure go ahead, Hydrocarbons? Throw it in, Whale Oil? Why not, Spiced Rum? What the hell go for it... etc

  • 12.24.2010 10:08 PM PDT

So that's how it is. You all ought to know better than that.

Mostly hydrogen is used. Fusion reactors in ships and hydrogen internal combustion engines in vehicles like warthogs. Hydrocarbons have been mentioned. In the book Ghost of Onyx, a gasoline tanker truck with a diesel engine is used to destroy a scarab.

  • 12.24.2010 10:54 PM PDT
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Chocolate milk the fuel of MEN.

  • 12.24.2010 10:57 PM PDT

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Well you do blow up a nuclear reactor in the end of the first game to blow up the Pillar of Autumn, so I'm going with nuclear.

  • 12.24.2010 11:51 PM PDT
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I'd say Hydrogen, yea. Fusion reactors I remember them having, that or Fission, and I don't think it was Fission. If it's fusion, only safe way to do is is Hydrogen. Lowest fusion point.

  • 12.25.2010 12:13 AM PDT

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Snakie and others are right, they do use Fusion reactors, so they will use various isotopes of Hydrogen for fuel.

However, that will only provide power, we don't know what UNSC (or Covenant, obviously) ships use for their engines.
They can't use Nuclear Impulse drives because that requires periodic detonation of a nuclear warhead.
Is it physically possible for the engines to eject the 'waste' products of a fusion reaction at high velocities, giving the ship an opposite thrust?

  • 12.25.2010 12:37 AM PDT

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  • 12.25.2010 12:56 AM PDT
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Posted by: JDYeash937 MkII
Is it physically possible for the engines to eject the 'waste' products of a fusion reaction at high velocities, giving the ship an opposite thrust?

Very easily, actually, but the question is how much thrust will be gained? I don't think it would be anywhere near enough, under any circumstances.

  • 12.25.2010 1:15 AM PDT
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Posted by: Lord Snakie
Posted by: JDYeash937 MkII
Is it physically possible for the engines to eject the 'waste' products of a fusion reaction at high velocities, giving the ship an opposite thrust?

Very easily, actually, but the question is how much thrust will be gained? I don't think it would be anywhere near enough, under any circumstances.
It's in space. There is so little resistance, you could probably fart out the back and move the damned ship.

  • 12.25.2010 3:30 AM PDT

Posted by: Tankbuster808
Mostly hydrogen is used. Fusion reactors in ships and hydrogen internal combustion engines in vehicles like warthogs. Hydrocarbons have been mentioned. In the book Ghost of Onyx, a gasoline tanker truck with a diesel engine is used to destroy a scarab.


This, ethanol was also mentioned as being used in hybrid tractors in Contact Harvest.

  • 12.25.2010 2:15 PM PDT
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Is it physically possible for the engines to eject the 'waste' products of a fusion reaction at high velocities, giving the ship an opposite thrust?

That's how Fusion drives work. You fuse your fuel and it get throw out behind you as propellent.

  • 12.25.2010 2:37 PM PDT
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Tylium lots of tylium

  • 12.25.2010 3:24 PM PDT


Posted by: Rawk to the Fist
Nuclear fusion reactors I believe. If not a futuristic version of that.


This.

  • 12.25.2010 3:30 PM PDT
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Posted by: opogjijijp
That's how Fusion drives work. You fuse your fuel and it get throw out behind you as propellent.

Ah, I see. By fusing, you gain an element that is actually heavier than the element prior to it in the chain that can simultaneously be used for ship-based electrical power. The heat by-product is used in... turbines, I'm guessing?... and then the actual helium itself would be ejected as propellant.

That's how it works, right? After startup energy, the hydrogen-helium fusion actually provides for electrical power and a heavier output overall than the original sum of the first element's weight, correct?

  • 12.25.2010 6:01 PM PDT

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Nuclear mice running in millions of those tiny wheels.

  • 12.25.2010 6:07 PM PDT
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Posted by: Lord Snakie
Posted by: opogjijijp
That's how Fusion drives work. You fuse your fuel and it get throw out behind you as propellent.

Ah, I see. By fusing, you gain an element that is actually heavier than the element prior to it in the chain that can simultaneously be used for ship-based electrical power. The heat by-product is used in... turbines, I'm guessing?


I'm not sure how the UNSC turns heat into electrical energy. They could use steam turbines, but it's also possible they have some sort of high efficiency thermoelectric generators.


and then the actual helium itself would be ejected as propellant.

Yeah, although doing a bit of research, it looks like fusion engines also use additional hydrogen propellent in addition to whatever you're fusing. I think. There's a few diagrams at the Atomic Rockets engine list page Just search the page for Fusion and you'll come to the right ones.



  • 12.27.2010 5:27 PM PDT

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Covenant engines run on deuterium

  • 12.27.2010 8:50 PM PDT