[quote=“BorkBorkGoesTheCode, post:15272, topic:42”][quote=“deoxy, post:15265, topic:42”][quote=“Soyweiser, post:15264, topic:42”][quote=“deoxy, post:15262, topic:42”]Hydrogen does still spawn in labs, it’s just very rare.
I understand that you don’t want the players to have a too easy fuel source for fission, but the CVD machine should be able to use a more regular form of hydrogen.
(You want a useful distunction? Say the current hydrogen is tritium. BAM, problem solved.)[/quote]
The description already says it is special solid hydrogen used to make plasma. I also updated the wiki for the new description.[/quote]
You know we haven’t actually achieved solid hydrogen, right? It’s never been done, depending on which set of theories you subscribe to, it may be literally impossible, and even if it is, the conditions required to solidify hydrogen would be EXTREME, to put it lightly (unbelievable amounts of pressure and/or 0 degrees K, which also has never been achieved). Deuterium or tritium makes MUCH more sense, and collecting any sizable amount of THAT would indeed be practically impossible in the conditions of the apocalypse.
Diamond coating of objects is possible today. There’s no reason for that to depend on a magical substance of limited supply (since you already need an uncraftable CVD machine).[/quote]
Well… https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solid_hydrogen[/quote]
Um, ok, wow. Clearly (assuming wikipedia isn’t being full of BS, which it very rarely is, outside of political topics), I’m remembering something incorrectly. I haven’t looked into this stuff in about 15 years, but if hydrogen was first frozen in 1899, then that’s no excuse.
Still, the temperature/pressures involved in freezing hydrogen… yeah, they’re insane. Using deuterium or tritium for the fusion applications makes more sense, from a “limited to stuff from before the cataclysm” perspective (and also from some fusion-related perspective, IIRC, which I obviously might not).
