Reply To: A Big Prick in the Balloon of the Big Bang

[Timo]

Brian H wrote:
For trucks, consider that the total weight of the FF generator, including shielding, is expected to be about 2 tons. I don’t think you get it under the hood; it would have to be a special configuration.

What I actually did mean is there a physical limitation to how small we can get. This first generator FF generator is probably quite a lot too big for for example cars, but can it get that small even in purely theoretical level? Lets say 250kW FF reactor?

Brian H wrote:
As to going orbital, there are some old Air Force studies of DPF as an SSTO power source, using MHD drive. I believe the conclusion was that there was power to spare. If so, theoretically FF is the basis of a sci-fi one-ship-does-all vehicle! If I can find the links, I’ll post them.

Multi-hued Dragon drive? 🙂 Seriously MHD usually means magneto hydrodynamic drive IE. boat motor, I think you mean MPD = Magnetoplasmadynamic drive.