Nothing I see forces aether generators to be cylindrical, that I know.This device is a cylinder, not a sphere.
Ship internal space dictates there's a limit.There is no limit to how much stuff you can cram around the device
Again, ships have a limited amount of space in them.Space is not a limiting factor for starships (see: Mass, there is plenty of space in space, no need to conserve it)
This makes no sense to me. I don't even understand what you're trying to say.The turbines basically use an axel made of gravity, which won’t work because of the gravity portion, but there is no limit on how many power generating devices can be attached to this axel, the axel merely has to be made longer to accommodate them.
That's what heatrods are inside the reactor cooling system, typically. Those then distribute the heat, and stuff.Even if you made the device spherical, this is not a water powered system. Any number of power generating devices can be stacked around and on top of each other. The result is that they gain power from radiation passing out of the device that penetrates through the first layer of generators.
Well, geez. So much for me trying to try and conform to the previous idea you asserted - the aether generators tapped electricity from the energy without any separate transferring medium. You never explained it. I'm trying to with the simpler analogs I have.The equivalent in SARP for solar cells is going to be solar cells which aren’t very efficient at collecting energy anyways. Devices for collecting radiation have to be very, very big and bulky because you are trying to collect radiation which is a very penetrating. The modern day equivalent is giant pools filled with water (nuclear reactors)
That was figurative. Inside a ship's power supply, it could be bigger, in a lunchbox, smaller. Seeing how an aether blade is something like 3' long, I don't think a miniature fist-sized sun is such a big deal.The problem with the ‘bunch of collectors around an aether sun’ device is that the radiation will certainly kill anyone trying to use it especially if it is fist sized.
Uso said:* Gravity is a very weak force; you’d need a metric shit-ton to contain anything aether based. Remember that one earth’s worth of gravity can be overcome simply by jumping. Consider using electromagnetism at least and a solid chunk of Zesuium at best.
Fred said:I'd note that I don't think you really need to go much further than a durandium composition to be able to build a unit that would be sufficiently heat resistant. You can't use a material that's as good as zesuaium to perform that since zesuaium is kinda iffy as far as heat conduction goes - and you seem to need that for the concept you suggest.
Also, if you want to hold in scalar ray radiation, you definitely would need to add in xiulurium - according to Wes, it stops scalar emissions/radiation.
Fred said:Effectively, this turns it into a glorified fusion reactor. That's not such a bad thing, though - an anti-matter reactor is essentially the same thing (a glorified fusion reactor) with a different method of generating thermal energy.
Uso said:* The high speed electrical generators are attached where? It would make sense that they are just built around the aether generator itself as the rotating motion of the ‘aether’ would be sufficient to generate an electrical current in copper(or whatever) wires around the thing itself.
Uso said:* Also, your aether seems to just disappear after the generators get powered. I should probably also add aether is not a thing but a place so the ‘aether’ in this device will probably take the form of really hot matter. In that case, where does the aether go once it has been used? You would need some sort of exhaust port to get rid of the unwanted material and you can’t just send it back to the aether because that would cost the same amount of power as it took to bring stuff out of the aether. Alternatively if the ‘aether’ is just photons and the like then you’ll have to change the mechanism away from the spiny bits or spin the aether rift itself so you can use its rotating magnetic field to generate a current.
Uso said:* Keep in mind that Scalar fiends can also generate electrical current in other devices. You’ll need to shield your generator to prevent the scalar fields from getting out and damaging other things.
Fred said:There seem to be two points of view to the issue so far: one suggests that a system is in place in the generator that directly taps electricity out of the 'event', the other seems to indicate that aether is used as a thermal energy source to have electricity be produced via a method not too dissimilar to a pressurized water reactor.
Uso said:I am also under the impression that this is going to be one type of aether generator. After all there are plenty of types of generators for every power method (rotary vs wankel for example) so the small aether generators could be using some other method and probably should go undefined because you don’t want to screw them up and have to redo the power armors because power armors can’t run on batteries (no battery could ever have the power density required to run power armors with FTL drives, shields, and teleporters in this setting. )
Fred said:Those collectors in turn would have their heat level regulated by a cooling system that could get additional energy out via the water pressure turbines too if the vessel has the space for it.
Uso said:The turbines basically use an axel made of gravity, which won’t work because of the gravity portion, but there is no limit on how many power generating devices can be attached to this axel, the axel merely has to be made longer to accommodate them.
Okay... do you know how in current steam generators (coal, oil, fission) steam is sent through a turbine which spins the turbine. this spinning creates mechanical energy which is transferred to the electricity generator through the use of a axle. Turbine spins causing the axle to spin causing the electricity generating components of the electricity generator to spin generating electricity.Fred said:"The turbines basically use an axle made of gravity, which won’t work because of the gravity portion, but there is no limit on how many power generating devices can be attached to this axle, the axle merely has to be made longer to accommodate them."
This makes no sense to me. I don't even understand what you're trying to say.
Uso said:The device that Drakconus is describing is a cylindrical object. Scalar emitters and aether rift bit in the center with the turbine parts sticking off to either side.
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