>>12890956That's it. I'm sick of all this "Super-dense methalox" bullshit that's going on in the solar system right now. hydrogen deserves much better than that. Much, much better than that.
I should know what I'm talking about. I myself commissioned genuine hydrogen in Florida for $20,000 (that's about 2 jobs in Alabama) and have been practicing with it for almost 2 years now. I can even produce 3000kN of thrust with an engine.
Aerospace chemists spend years working on a single tank of hydrogen and crack it up to a million times to produce the finest fuel known to mankind.
Hydrogen is ten times as powerful as hydrocarbon fuels and ten times as forceful for that matter too. Anything propane can push; a hydrogen can push better. I'm pretty sure a hydrogen could easily lift a moon mission with a simple booster-sustainer rocket.
Ever wonder why space agencies never bothered using non-hydrogen fuels to go to the moon? That's right, they were too scared make the attempt using inferior fuels. Even during the Space Race, Soviet spies targeted the American engineers with the hydrogen knowledge first because their power was feared and respected.
So what am I saying? Hydrogen is simply the best fuel that the world has ever seen, and thus, require better stats in the solar system. Here is the stat block I propose for hydrogen:
(Upper Stage Exotic Fuel)
Thrust coefficient of 3
550s specific impulse
+2 to storage density
Counts as Masterwork
(Booster Stage Exotic Fuel)
Thrust coefficient of 4
500s specific impulse
+5 to storage density
Counts as Masterwork
Now that seems a lot more representative of the power of hydrogen in real life, don't you think?
tl;dr = Hydrogen needs to lift more in the solar system, see my new stat block.
