Space Engineers – Hydrogen Engine
Hydrogen Engine
Hydrogen Engines are used to ability vehicles yesteryear burning hydrogen gas. They demand to hold upwards conveyored to a reservoir inwards gild to access the hydrogen fuel. This engine is available for pocket-sized grids in addition to large grids. The Large grid version is a 1x1x2 HWD block. It has two conveyor access ports ane on the bottom of the tall human face upwards in addition to the other on the smallest surface mount. It contains iii command pads. This large version has a majority of 3,253 Kg. It tin concur 500,000 Liters of fuel.
The Small grid Hydrogen Engine functions the same vogue amongst two conveyor ports on reverse ends every bit an inline version. Its majority is 1,005 Kg. It tin concur 16,000 Liters of gas. Its demensions are 2x3x2 Height x Width x Depth.
It is ane of the few blocks to require the production of Power Cells to function.
1- Does hydrogen consumption increment amongst ability utilisation or is it a static rate?
- It increases quite a fleck depending on how much ability you’re using. It only creates every bit much ability every bit yous need.
2-Can the hydrogen engine eat hydrogen faster than the H2/O2 generator tin attain it?
- Yes, but for some argue it volition alternate betwixt existence at 100% ability in addition to existence at the normal amount of liberate energy consumption similar xx times every milisecond, in addition to everything volition all the same work, although it mightiness plow some things on in addition to off constantly. Basically, it technically doesn’t.
If yous start trying to aspect at the physics of the SE universe, things larn weird fast:
- Nuclear reactors totally convert their fuel to energy, rather than producing whatsoever radioactive waste product products or leaving behind spent fuel. However, close of the liberate energy you’d await to hold upwards released (per E=MC2) disappears – it’s non released every bit heat, light, vibration, or whatsoever other observable class of energy. This happens to piece of occupation out such that 1 kilogram of uranium – which should attain nearly 9 * 1016 joules if converted solely into liberate energy – instead only produces 3.6 * 106 joules.
- Refined uranium that’s usable inwards reactors is non radioactive, or is in addition to then mildly radioactive that no neutron embrittlement, secondary activation, or radiations hazards to life are observed. Even reactors which are plainly also pocket-sized to hold upwards properly shielded, similar pocket-sized grid pocket-sized reactors, attain no radiations when operating.
- Pure hydrogen burns, fifty-fifty inwards the absence of oxygen, in addition to releases to a greater extent than liberate energy than it took to attain the hydrogen inwards the get-go place. Working out the ability output, inwards watts, of an H2 thruster is beyond my abilities, but it tin hold upwards done, in addition to it’s pretty clear simply from observation that fifty-fifty pocket-sized thrusters attain vogue to a greater extent than than the 330 kilowatts it takes to run an O2/H2 generator on a large grid. As per this thread, the novel H2 generator also produces to a greater extent than liberate energy than is consumed producing the hydrogen.
- The Sun is infinitely far away, or in addition to then far away that it approximates it. Despite this, it manages to motion through the heaven quite quickly.
- The Sun also manages to shoot asteroids at whatsoever person, from infinitely far away, which go into inwards less than interplanetary space fourth dimension in addition to go into travelling at quite depression speeds. This phenomenon doesn’t afflict whatsoever other life inwards the universe: spiders in addition to wolves, for example, are non regularly picked off yesteryear an angry star.
- Newton’s tertiary constabulary does non apply to the game: at that topographic point are a release of systems that attain forcefulness inwards ane administration without producing recoil anywhere. Gravity drives based on this regulation are good known inwards the literature, every bit the maxim goes, in addition to this month’s rush of clang-drive evolution is some other skillful example. These systems also attain far to a greater extent than thrust than could mayhap hold upwards justified yesteryear the ability they consume: they’re effectively free-energy machines, every bit good every bit free-momentum machines.
- Planetary atmospheres conduct keep pressure, similar whatsoever trunk of gas, but this gas is frictionless in addition to massless. Objects travelling through air are non slowed or deflected yesteryear it, in addition to attain non larn out turbulent wakes through it.
- Planetary gravity falls off proportional to the 7th ability of the distance from planet’s pump of mass, bafflingly, in addition to somehow does non decrease at all for a large radius unopen to a heavy object’s pump of mass. As a result, stable orbits are impossible.
- Which is fine, because nada orbits. Planets in addition to asteroids are locked inwards place, amongst the Sun whirling unopen to them (infinitely far away, every bit above). Copernicus was, apparently, right.
