Alternative Energy Sources?

Discussion in 'Backers Lounge (Read-only)' started by mushroomars, May 30, 2013.

  1. mushroomars

    mushroomars Well-Known Member

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    The issues with using wind turbines as hurricane generators is that the amount of force you would need to generate hurricane-scale winds would be immense. A simple dynamo would blow out if supplied with enough energy to generate that force.

    Anyways, even on TA worlds which would generate an almost constant +30 energy per wind turbine, units were completely unaffected. We're talking several-ton tanks and robutts here, not squishy humans.

    A tsunami generator however... A bit more feasible. Use some charges on a cliffside, drop the cliffside into the water, or cause a seaside volcano to erupt, and you have a guided tsunami.
  2. infowars

    infowars Member

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    I've seen Akira and I watched a bit of Cowboy Bebop. Did go to school where I spent too much time studying physics and biology and not enough chemistry.

    What's wrong with it? Or are you against speculation in a science fiction game.

    Weather warfare is not a new science. People might think gusts of wind are not even worth consideration with super duper robots, but when you consider the kinetic energy blowing over those flat surfaces, that's going to put pressure on any material.

    Now, I know there's a bit more to starting a storm than just blowing. You need some clever tech but I just like the idea of dual purpose buildings.

    I also like the idea of giant space based death rays/wormholes opening up pouring fourth plasma. As soon as I saw the kickstarter for what PA is about, my mind itched with all sorts of ways to cause astronomical scale destruction.
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    laseek New Member

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    I was thinking a little more about this.

    Stealthed Tactical Environment Tech could do a bunch of things from modifying the local environment with de/humidifiers, tapping into underground aquifers for flooding or just generating corrosive pollution.
  4. mushroomars

    mushroomars Well-Known Member

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    Uber said that there would be no weather system, but I'm about 99% sure that because of the sheer amount of destruction and stupidity one can cause by manipulating weather, it will be modded in somehow.

    The only weather I ever want is deadly meteor showers ^.^

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