2008-10-11, 17:29 | Link #42 | ||
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I'm aware of this, but if people are going to attempt at rationalizing why gundams don't use nuclear reactors, I get to say where they are making mistakes.
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No one said nuclear energy is infinite. But in practical terms, it might as well be. Depending on the reactor size, there would be enough energy for years of use. |
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2008-10-11, 17:52 | Link #43 | |
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Ok i was never a fan of side stories that wasn't written by the same authors, since they either try to fit some story gaps in a weird way, or contradicts the main story, which could be true in case of 00, since the series hasn't ended yet. |
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2008-10-11, 17:54 | Link #44 | |
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2008-10-11, 18:00 | Link #45 | |
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"Both shoulders possess GN Verniers, which is a common bond it shares with the Double 0 Gundam" I think that any major propulsion system using GN particles is a GN Vernier and that the cone is a type made for mobility. |
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2008-10-11, 18:53 | Link #46 | ||
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2008-10-11, 19:24 | Link #48 | |
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The purpose of FaceBM is to strengthen Seravee's GN Field. If you look at when Virtue fought the GN-Xs their beams were able to penetrate Virtue's GN Field. |
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2008-10-11, 19:50 | Link #49 | |
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Sure, the face is probably a giant particle emitter/control device, but why include the eyes and other cameras on it? |
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2008-10-11, 20:04 | Link #50 | |
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But really the longer I keep thinking about, the longer MegaGundamZord keeps popping into my head. |
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2008-10-11, 20:08 | Link #52 | ||
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"No one said nuclear energy is infinite. But in practical terms, it might as well be. Depending on the reactor size, there would be enough energy for years of use." |
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2008-10-11, 20:12 | Link #53 |
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Take into account that fossil, physical fuels had been depleted already, and this series takes place a few hundred years into the future of our own timeline. They might not HAVE any viable nuclear materials to power nuclear reactors.
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2008-10-11, 20:20 | Link #54 |
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Well it's not limitless, it's infinite. There is a difference. The GN Drive can only produce so much energy at any given time, but it can continue to produce that amount of energy forever, making it into a sort of perpetual motion machine.
GN Drives are described as harnessing "photon and positron discharges of the non-evaporative decay of baryonic matter as an energy source." Baryonic matter is essentially all matter that we know of (anything made from protons and neutrons). Since they specifically say that they get photons and positrons from the decay that means it's Proton Decay. Protons take a long time to decay though, longer than the Universe has been around, so it must be some catalyzed reaction. How on Earth they are doing it so quickly I don't know, that's probably the secret of the GN Drive and GN particle production. I honestly don't know where they can say non-evaporative decay though since that (as I understand it) would mean whatever they decompose in the GN Drive can be continually recycled for producing more energy. This completely violates the Law of Conservation of Energy. How I prefer to imagine a GN Drives functionality is a perpetual motion machine of the second type, one that violates the Second Law of Thermodynamics. We know this happens since the GN Drive generates no heat in its reaction process, meaning it's 100% efficient and since the process should work with any baryonic matter the GN Drives are continually refueling just by flying and scooping up molecules in the air. As far as the GN Drive[t] goes with it's lack of a TD Blanket and finite operation time, it's probably that sans-purification the GN particles damage the reactor/reactor process to the extent that the decay is no longer non-evaporative. That means they are actually burning through their fuel instead of continually recycling it like the 5 genuine GN Drives. |
2008-10-11, 20:40 | Link #55 | ||
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And as for the non-evaporative decay statement. I hadn't ever really given any consideration to the importance in understanding that single word... Though, as you point out, the GN Alpha Drives bypass the law of Conservation of Energy / Matter. I'd have to think though, however, that the TD Blanket is the component that allows this reality bending, process to take place. Whatever it is and however it does what it does, it's implicated as a peice of Quantum Engineering, which could infinitely recycle the matter into a usable state for the GN reaction. |
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2008-10-11, 21:48 | Link #57 | |
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2008-10-11, 21:53 | Link #58 | |
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Is this thread solely for Gundam 00 mecha and technology, or can it for Gundam in general? Last edited by Double 120%; 2008-10-11 at 22:26. |
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2008-10-12, 00:00 | Link #60 |
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the only thing that i could think of that is on Jupiter is metallic hydrogen. Hydrogen compressed in the deep atmosphere of Jupiter were it starts to behave like a metal generating a magnetic field. Being extremely dense it might provide a long term fuel source that is relatively compact.
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