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Gatecrashing is excellent.

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Fri, 2010-12-31 23:35
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Gatecrashing is excellent.
I got gatecrashing and have read thru it at length. I must say it's an excellent product and I'd rate it an over 5/5 in most terms. I was pleased and gratified to see the "nuclear battery" issue I raised with the original EP book has been addressed and clarified, if my questions and thought on the atomic battery issue lead to the material for them being added to GC I'm glad. I know that EP is supposed to be a leading edge hard SF transhuman setting, but I kind of gagged at the idea of a personal nuclear power source taking the place of nutrition and actualyl sustaining a player character thru nuclear power taking the place of energy produced metabolically by eating. I'm not sure that's very feasible.... All in all thought I still think it's a really excellent product that comes off like leading edge hard SF from Greg bear, Alastair reynolds or greg benford and give it double thumbs up without reservation.
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Sat, 2011-01-01 01:57
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Re: Gatecrashing is excellent.
The human body usually runs at a few hundred watts, sometimes over a thousand. It generates its power by combining oxygen with a range of carbon-hydrogen-nitrogen compounds. Such reactions should be reversible, particularly with handwavium nanotech that can sculpt whole continents on Earth, given an equal input energy. With that reversible cycle, you can perpetually have all the chemicals needed by a human metabolism indefinitely, less recycling losses. So, you put a nuclear battery in a bio-body with a clever nanotech recycler and can keep the reactions going indefinitely. Once you accept the handwavium nanotech, the energy question is a non-issue. Indeed, the energy issue is the trivial aspect - the nuclear energy aspect is 20th Century engineering. Inventing nanotech that can perform as described in Eclipse is the hard part.
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