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refuelling... not at a gas giant Timothy Collinson (10 Oct 2020 19:16 UTC)
Re: [TML] refuelling... not at a gas giant Rupert Boleyn (11 Oct 2020 00:17 UTC)
Re: [TML] refuelling... not at a gas giant kaladorn@xxxxxx (11 Oct 2020 00:57 UTC)
Re: [TML] refuelling... not at a gas giant kaladorn@xxxxxx (11 Oct 2020 00:59 UTC)
Re: [TML] refuelling... not at a gas giant Rupert Boleyn (11 Oct 2020 05:37 UTC)
Re: [TML] refuelling... not at a gas giant kaladorn@xxxxxx (11 Oct 2020 06:31 UTC)
Re: [TML] refuelling... not at a gas giant Rupert Boleyn (11 Oct 2020 06:34 UTC)
Re: [TML] refuelling... not at a gas giant kaladorn@xxxxxx (11 Oct 2020 06:46 UTC)
Re: [TML] refuelling... not at a gas giant Rupert Boleyn (11 Oct 2020 07:11 UTC)
Re: [TML] refuelling... not at a gas giant Kelly St. Clair (11 Oct 2020 07:15 UTC)
Re: [TML] refuelling... not at a gas giant James Catchpole (11 Oct 2020 09:02 UTC)
Re: [TML] refuelling... not at a gas giant Thomas RUX (11 Oct 2020 17:28 UTC)
Re: [TML] refuelling... not at a gas giant Rupert Boleyn (11 Oct 2020 18:15 UTC)
Re: [TML] refuelling... not at a gas giant Thomas RUX (11 Oct 2020 18:48 UTC)
Re: [TML] refuelling... not at a gas giant Phil Pugliese (12 Oct 2020 17:43 UTC)
Re: [TML] refuelling... not at a gas giant Cian Witherspoon (12 Oct 2020 18:01 UTC)
Re: [TML] refuelling... not at a gas giant Thomas Jones-Low (12 Oct 2020 18:01 UTC)
Re: [TML] refuelling... not at a gas giant Thomas RUX (12 Oct 2020 20:11 UTC)
Re: [TML] refuelling... not at a gas giant James Catchpole (11 Oct 2020 02:58 UTC)
Re: [TML] refuelling... not at a gas giant kaladorn@xxxxxx (11 Oct 2020 03:25 UTC)
Re: [TML] refuelling... not at a gas giant James Catchpole (11 Oct 2020 04:33 UTC)
Re: [TML] refuelling... not at a gas giant Rupert Boleyn (11 Oct 2020 06:07 UTC)
Re: [TML] refuelling... not at a gas giant Timothy Collinson (11 Oct 2020 12:49 UTC)
Re: [TML] refuelling... not at a gas giant Rupert Boleyn 11 Oct 2020 06:07 UTC 

On 11Oct2020 1556, James Catchpole - jlcatchpole at googlemail.com (via
tml list) wrote:
> I agree with all the salient points you make, but I think you have
> made a mistake in your working out, as 1.56 + 9.78 <> 14...
>
> 14 / 9 = 1.56, rounded to 2dp.
>
> 14 × 8 / 9 = 12.44, rounded to 2dp.
>
> So, the oxygen is 12.44 tonnes, taking up 0.78 DTons if cryogenically
> cooled.
You're right. Not sure where that error came from.

>
> I would add that cryogenically cooling the oxygen is trivial if you
> can cool H2 sufficiently to make a liquid, only needing to be kept
> below 90K at 1 atm, rather than the 33K maximum for H2, or 20K at 1
> atm. Indeed, liquid H2 is cold enough to freeze 02...
Sure, but you still have to do it.

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Rupert Boleyn <xxxxxx@gmail.com>