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RE: starship-design: Plasma Engine



Kelly,

> The fusion systems I used for the Explorer and Fuel/sail designs had spec
imp
> of over a million.  Even with that the fuel ratios for the ships were
> stagering.

Hmmm, now that I think of it, I think I made a serious mistake on that
payload ratio of 0.2, that should have been 0.2 percent, which means
increasing the number of engines is even less helpful than I said.

Lee