Morning Pacific Standard Time,

The full guideline from CT LBB 2 1977 page 17 is: "All non-starships consume fuel at the rate of 10 kilograms (1/100th of a ton) for each G of acceleration for ten minutes, regardless of mass or cargo carried."

I have no idea if having the complete guideline has an effect on comment made, however the fuel consumption increases with more acceleration.

Tom Rux
On November 27, 2019 at 5:04 AM Cian Witherspoon <xxxxxx@gmail.com> wrote:



On Wed, Nov 27, 2019 at 04:37 Rupert Boleyn < xxxxxx@gmail.com> wrote:


My '77 Book 2 talks about tons displacement, and 'displacement', so it's
clearly talking volume.
No, 77 is pretty explicitly mass based - yes, it’s mass displacement, but page 17 “all non starships consume fuel at a rate of 10 kilograms (1/100th of a ton)...”, while page 43 provides guidelines for determining how much of an item is present in a ton of its matching trade good, and also makes it clear that trade goods are measured by weight. 
But on your other point, cargo sections are tiny. A fully loaded 40’ container has an average density of about 350kg/m3, which is honestly about half the density of wheat grain. volumetric ship design gives us literal dTons of waste space if we try and reconcile mass based performance with current designs. 

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