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Well there is no liquid air resource - gas compressor compresses intake air to compressed gas - and there is no such option in ISRU refinery parts. It seems like for thermal turbojet pressure is irrelevant when using atmosphere as fuel - it seems its able to compress it to even higher pressures. Also max acceleration at sea level in atmospheric mode is around 4.5 m/s2. --------------------------------------------------------- RSS atmospheres list: (Pressure, average temperature on surface, average temperature at 100 kPa level) Venus - 0.90 g 11 MPa 753 K 350 K Earth - 1.00 g 101 kPa 283 K Mars - 0.38 g 1 kPa 195 K Jupiter - 2.34 g 101 MPa 1278 K 166 K Saturn - 0.94 g 101 MPa 1005 K 136 K Titan (Saturn moon) - 0.14 g 159 kPa 95 K 125 K Uranus - 0.93 g 101 MPa 731 K 76 K Neptune - 1.16 g 101 MPa 718 K 71 K Triton (Neptune moon) - 0.08 g 16 Pa 37 K Pluto - 0.06 g 1 Pa 41 K There is almost no gravity on Triton - can run VASMIR on compressed air here using 1.25 fusion reactor with built in charged particles generator. It even works just fine on Mars! I launched this tiny rocket from Mars surface. Attached tiny ARCJET instead of VASMIR. Now it launches even on Earth! With microwave beam network we could have air-propelled missiles!

It appears wakefield engine stops working under 3 atmospheres of pressure. Attached behind gas tank 1.25m fusion reactor on D-He3 mode (same as main reactors) and thermal turbojets. These worked even at surface of Venus at 92 atmospheres! Here is ship happily flying in Jupiters atmosphere.

Yep it uses plasma wakefield, it can replenish itself with air at 97.5% of throttle: But it has very low TWR only around 0.3 - its useful only for atmospheric flight. It uses 2 antimatter initiated reactors connected to 2 charged particles generators - total power of 28 GW.

Well switching propellants during flight instantly changed electricity consumption even though there was same heat load during switching. BTW my aircraft has nice property, that while you need cesium during ascend to orbit, you can finalize it using compressed air again (I think you can do it as soon as you reach 6500 m/s in low orbit). I should drop thrust, as I ascend orbit to conserve cesium, but I guess since we can buy antimatter and fusion pellets on space market... ;^) So to recap compressed air mode is useful here up to 25km mark and around 1300m/s, then I switch to cesium - can accelerate at 1 - 1.5g easily and could even pull 2 g at max thrust and low fuel, and again switch back to compressed air when nearby at orbit.

Why propellant efficiency reduces maximum electricity usage? This is most noticeable with EM drive, that has propellant efficiency of 9% - it uses only 9% of max power even if power supply is much greater than its needs Also shouldn't I get only 3.6 GW of waste heat from reactors (equal to total thermal energy not used): I'm using charged particles generator one. It seems that reactors aren't used evenly. Also generators are generating energy kinda backwards instead of using energy from reactors being attached to.

Well even at minimal throttle it uses Hydrogen at least with Antimatter Initiated Reactor. Any way to keep radiators cooler at around 2000 K? At 2600 K I'm losing a lot of potential thrust. Also propellant efficiency reduces maximum power usage to what efficiency is here - Im getting higher electricity usage if I use higher efficiency propellant. Theoretical electricity supply in my aircraft is 28 GW of power.

I did some adjustments to my bird. Now it weights 200 tons thanks to 6 2.5m cesium tanks. It uses hydrazine for RCS. For atmospheric flight it uses compressed air. Air gathering setup has 1.5m size and consists of adjustable ramp intake, precooler (you want to cool down incoming gas before pressurizing it or else you can rupture tanks ;^)), and compressed air gas tank. This gas is pumped straight into WAKEFIELD engine. Or rather rushes itself under pressure from atmosphere and hundreds of tesla worth magnetic field inside of engine.

Well I meant there is no such option. At least for following parts: Mounted Perpendicular ARCJET RCS, inline ARCJET RCS, and Mounted ARCJET RCS 90, also there is no lithium mode for them, only liquids and gases.

Well info on front page is actually most accurate info you can find here. Documentation in links is bit outdated though. I think Freethinker needs helper, who would document and update these features. @FreeThinker is it possible to have electric engine mode, that emits electrons only? Such engine would use charged particles as fuel. Can all KSPIE RCS use Cesium as their fuel?

Entry for plasma thruster must be outdated - its electricity only mode was separated into separate engine called "em drive" Also it seems like quantum vacuum "properpalant isn't listed as for EM-drive only.

It appears you are looking for EM Drive - it doesn't use propellant, just pure electricity.

Microwave Solar Receiver.

Yeah it, tends to cut zeros in front of number instead at end.

http://www91.zippyshare.com/v/830QZKaX/file.html Also it seems like solar receiver (in microwave parts) doesn't generate more energy when you upscale it - both 2.5m and 40m version generate same amount of energy. By the way following resources doesn't have respective IFS tank modes. liquid fuel, oxidizer, monopropellant, HTP, Hydrates and Kerosene modes to cryogenic tanks. solid fuel, ore, mopedantte and minerals modes to cargo containers. Also I made SSTO plane that uses nitrogen from atmosphere. It has two 2.5m antimatter initiated reactors with charged particle generators, 2.5m wakefield plasma accelerator and 6 2.5m air scoops. On other hand I could ditch atmospheric scoops altogether and use cesium - it has best thrust for electric engines.

Used excel for it, for each resource I wrote mass and price of it. For few others process was slightly more complicated - these didn't have their IFS tank like intake liquid, ore, hydrates and few others.

Tug of war between gravity, aerodynamics, thermodynamics and nuclear physics. Going steadily 10 m/s up, drag and thrust are dropping slowly.

It automatically converts energy to electricity.

I build AIM + plasma engine bird, that can go both below 100 m/s or can go over 6 mach. It has yearly supply of antimatter and fusion pellets. Is kind of atmospheric plane, as it uses nitrogen from air to propel itself and no internal tanks to boost itself to orbit. I guess I should use VASMIR/Atilla/MPD here. I believe I can fly high ;^) Really need high ISP/efficiency engines here. It seems like this electrical engine is better than plasma engine. All you need is electricity - it could work with microwave beam.

You cant use QSR to feed engines with thermal energy/charged particles. It appears you are using whatever reactors you used to startup QSR.

Here is list of resources by price per ton: Antimatter is ultra expensive - one gram of it costs 100 000 kerbucks. Even He3 is way cheaper costing only 0.89 kerbucks per gram. also why Lithium 7 Hydrate is orders of magnitude cheaper than Lithium 7 or Hydrogen?

Looks like using lithium as tritium source in pure tritium mode fusion can last for millennia:

Totally not expensive way to propel yourself. I guess cheaper option would be simply to make use of microwave beam network for 5 mach air travel.

It was already mentioned, that its CKANs fault for marking IFS and CC as incompatible with each other.

It seems like D-T reaction (default one) doesn't produce tritium from lithium in thermal reactor. btw thermal ramjet switches itself from atmospheric mode when launching.

Ah so its just false alarm here?