Better emergency generator?

[Lantern]

Making the portable generator a science experiment sounds like a much better idea than just leaving it as is.

As dudes get smarter at making engine mixtures, making smaller scale plasma fuel mixtures shouldn't really be problem. Especially if they want to power areas like chemistry or genetics. In fact perhaps it could be possible to fully power more than one cell with the right composition.


I don't know much about chemistry but it sounds like sugar could be used as a potential fuel source, or crewmen could make some kind of rocket fuel mixtures and use that. The thing I don't really understand much of is the mechanics of that though but it could be neat if people were doing stuff with ethanol (botany plants?) or sugar.

this would be awesome for telescience expeditions. hot wire it to the power grid of where ever you are, start exploring without having to jam open doors.