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Hello, Is there a way to disable an option to purchase resources other than "basic"? For me, the most rewarding part of KSPIE is building resource gathering and processing infrastructure, but I find it highly demotivating and almost pointless, if you can just simply buy enriched uranium, tritium or antimatter. Not to mention it is anticlimactic when shortly after "discovery" of antimatter you can buy it in unlimited amounts. Regards

Seems like AM reactor power is capped at 5% max. Any reason why?

Hello, Why my fully upgraded charged particle generator connected to 2.5m antimatter reactor can only output 19GW of power? What are limiting factors? Thanks

Use molten salt reactor with thorium fuel. It would increase power output, temperature and thus efficiency. MSR in uranium fuel mode is unsuitable for electrical power generation in space as main reactor.

Or, how about moving last FEL upgrade to the same science node as Wakefield engine? Table looks great.

I have to disagree with you. At first, I would like to mention that we are talking about tech levels parallel to warp drives, super powerful, compact antimatter reactors and man-made, controlled black holes. Actually, there are papers regarding developement of not only relatively small, but table-top hard X-Ray FELs. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0168900295013288 https://www.intechopen.com/books/free-electron-lasers/laser-driven-table-top-x-ray-fel TL,DR Not only small, but tiny X-Ray FELs are possible, but we need to develop Wakefield accelerators. How about Wakefield accelerator tech increasing maximum power of FEL?

Beaming power to Proxima Centauri, heh. What about receivers? For penetrating radiation , special high temperature thermal receivers with [generator] should be fasible.

Actually I was looking into this problem before. I didn't find a physical limitation to how narrow wavelength FEL can be. Seems like even Gamma ray FELs are possible but somone more competent shiould relate. Maybe not slanted mirrors, but with other optics probably. After some researching I am astonished by possibilities of FELs and high energy light optics. Please take a look at this magnificent piece of discovery. http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/news/2012/may/09/silicon-prism-bends-gamma-rays And this: http://www.laserfocusworld.com/articles/2011/08/bragg-reflectivity-of-x-rays.html It could actually GREATLY increase X-ray FEL efficiency. What is more, "more standard" optics with much higher angle of incidence could be used. Our universe is a truly amazing place. 100% not true for "low energy" hard X-Rays like <20 KeV, not sure about higher energy.

Exactly. And by quite lightweight or big receiver which is basically little thicker photovoltaic cell. Due to high receive efficiency, less heat exchange is required so weight can be kept low.

Ah sorry, just my misconception. Seems like it should be diameter. I am afraid, I can't help you with this one. I was never good at writing descriptions.

If you are talking about receiver, then it would probably be only usable for ionizing radiation, so X-Rays and Extreme UV. I really have no idea about efficiency, IMO for different X-Rays, it should be similar. By the way, how are you going to calculate aperture diameter of transmiter? IMO length should be used instead of diameter. Can't wait for my 240 GWe Solar Station to reach Pluto.

@FreeThinker Actually there is potential for very efficient direct conversion from X-Ray to electricity. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct_energy_conversion#X-ray_photoelectric_converter And it is with higher energy, variable wavelength X-Rays. With monochromatic, lower energy X-Rays, IMO conversion efficiency can be higher, probably in excess of 90%. Not really. At 0.1nm, X-Rays are quickly stopped by virtually anything. Take a look - diagram for Half Value Layer (HVL) for aluminium http://www.sprawls.org/ppmi2/RADPEN/#HALF VALUE LAYER For 0.1 nm, photon energy is only ~12.4 keV. At this wavelength, half of the photons is stopped by just ~0.2mm of aluminium and much less of denser matter (non linear). Seems like your argument about frying crew with missed beam turned out to be invalid. This is why i proposed to move whole laser with fixed transmitter. This is true. IMO problem can be bypassed by using high efficiency beam to electricity receiver (90%?) and then using infrared or something for local "blindspot" purposes. Regards

@FreeThinker If we want to keep it realistic, whole FEL with transmitter attached should be movable, not just transmitter. Due to Angle of incidence limitations, you can't aim with just optics without huge loss of efficiency and very long aparature. My quick solution would be: Take movable base of Diode Infrared Beamed Power Laser model and attach it to bottom of FEL model, then attach head of DT-L-IR-1 Laser Beam Transmitter to our new model. It should yield FEL with integrated transmitter for very short wavelengths. IMO quite good option to add specialized FEL with integrated transimiter for UV and X-Rays. Regards

Bug report: Mk2 thermal power receiver GEO relays don't connect when my plane is flying horizontally. As soon as I start pitching up to vertical position, relays connect. Seems like active sides of Mk2 are top and bottom instead of sides. Thanks

@FreeThinker Great! After lurking deeper into the issuse, correct me if I am wrong, seems like focusing X-Rays can be done in a very effecient way with small/very small optics. The problem with X-Ray optics in today applications is that due to angle of incidence measured in single or even sub milirads, focal length need to be quite long. In our applications FL is in order of Gm, so small angle of incidence is not a problem. What is more, at very low AOI, efficiency of X-Ray reflection is very high. Missing with almost any very high power beam would most likely end in serious damage to the ship. Regards