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Wil Mireu said:Tom Kalbfus said:Tyllium seems to be used both for the drives and for the vipers which were not jump capable,so it is basically a source of energy. Traveller uses hydrogen for its jump drives, no reason why we couldn't use hydrogen. Tyllium was only essential for one episode. The main thing is hydrogen is the commonest element in the Universe, they wanted something that was more like oil so the proper 20th century OPEC analogs can be made up, by hydrogen works just as well as a fuel, so long as we don't have spaceships that can travel up to significant fractions of the speed of light, hydrogen fusion works just fine, why not stick with that?
Because it's not like hydrogen? They don't need to stop and refuel after every jump - Tylium reserves will apparently run a ship for a LONG time. Plus, it seems to be mined from asteroids rather than planets.
http://en.battlestarwiki.org/wiki/Tylium
"Refined tylium has a tremendous enthalpy to the order of approximately half a million gigajoules per kilogram, or about 6 times greater than Uranium-235 and 81% that of deuterium fusion. "
I don't know. It is less energy dense than even Trav fusion. Comparing with trav jump drives is Apples to oranges. Mainly because the "bubble' H2 needed (which isn't used as fuel anyway).