[Dead Corpse]

Leyden jars? They don't sound all that hard to make. Most of the substrata beneath the castle is your typical olivine with a could of good metal ore strains running through it. Nickel/Iron, copper, lead, even some more rare or exotic materials like titanium. Should be enough to whip up a few hundred jars if we need 'em.

I'm trying something that'll cross a Leyden, a Van de Graaf, and a cold fusion reactos. If you see lavender smoke pouring out of the forge later on... don't look back... just run.

[Monkey Face]

Wow...lavender smoke, huh?

And where will we run to when we are in outerspace?

:o|

[NicknamedBob]

I think cold fusion has a lot more promise than press reports would indicate.

The confusion seems to stem from the fact, apparent to me, that cold fusion requires a combination of rare-earth metals, electrical discharges, Deuterium-Tritium mixtures, and perhaps even ultrasonic bubble collapses.

Something of a proper recipe will cause power to flow from the right combination of these ingredients. If my supposition is correct, it may be that fuel cell cars will eventually be supplanted by cold-fusion electrical generators, which should be perfectly safe to operate in vehicles, if normal fire precautions are taken.

I could easily get used to the task of re-fueling annually.

[NicknamedBob]

"...even some more rare or exotic materials like titanium."

I was considering our discussion of the risks of meteorite puncture of the hull and the subsequent air-loss.

What say we strip out those old fuel tanks we used for the turbo-jet engines, and put in some high-strength spherical chambers for compressed air storage?

Even without drastic loss, we'll need make-up air for normal leakage and air-lock operations.