#could be a turbine?

[just-late-roman-republic-things]

Many thanks to @catominor for showing me the funniest possible description someone at the Victoria and Albert Museum put on a bust of Cato.

#his corpse is spinning so fast it could power a turbine #i have now reported the error to the museum but i had to preserve it here. for posterity. it's glorious #victoria and albert museum #just roman memes #jlrrt speaks #cato the younger #art #museum

[grooviestguru]

do we think neil kept the FBI hoodie?

#he’s hilarious enough to keep it #but also would throw it in a turbine just to get rid of it #andrew might save it for a devastatingly amusing keepsake #but also he might be the one to knife it to shreds for the newest worst night of his life #could go either way honestly #aftg #neil josten #andrew minyard #the foxhole court

[molagboop]

High-echelon Mawkin suit modules can be pretty wild, and the Energy conversion module in Raven Beak's suit is no exception.

When exposed to an active current or energy field, the module accounts for the level of charged particles in the local atmosphere and converts the detected matter to power. Most substantial forms of power and radiation are compatible with its function, and it's calibrated to work more efficiently when exposed to substantially powerful forms of plasmic matter.

The conversion module is similar to (but should not be confused with) the thermal charge module, which charges the power suit in extreme heat. That technology is also implemented in the protective exosuits found in Cataris' lava zone. The Mawkin use thermal energy to power a number of their facilities: that they'd implement it in their more mobile works is only natural.

Back to the subject at hand, the conversion module's practicality is twofold: to keep Raven Beak's suit sufficiently charged and to maintain his vigor in battle. His particular biometric modifications are such that his suit, combined with his level of physical fitness, can theoretically keep him fighting without fear of exhaustion in perpetuity.

Raven Beak's juiced up version of lightning armor is the inverse of this module: it absorbs charged particles for the purpose of coalescing into a projected wave. The use of lightning armor in this manner negates the function of the conversion module for restorative purposes. Additionally, lightning armor works best against oncoming projectiles, while the reactive conversion module is at its peak when the suit is exposed to ambient radiation or concentrated, consistent flows of power.

Suffice to say, Raven Beak is probably the only person who could stick a fork in an electrical socket and have it do the exact opposite of killing him.

#when i said he looks down on samus' suit upgrade library with pity. this is the kinda shit he's got under his belt to compare. #headcanons #mawkin #chozo #txt #there's a reason the Mawkin make duelists strip down to the bare essentials when they fight over disputes like leadership #in the case of duels over the title of Warlord that reason is 'to ensure the sitting Lord has not grown soft with the wealth of amenities #at their disposal' #the conversion module is one of those things that's hard-wired into his.. #what's the word. cybernetics? Raven Beak has body mods but none of them are cosmetic. they're all for function. #but in any case it shouldn't come into play if he's duking it out with another Chozo in a spear fight. #his rivals for the seat don't have to deal with the immortal god-king who operates at peak efficiency 24/7: just Great Uncle Ashkar #and his fists #those are arguably scarier than the big cannon with its reactor turbines #you could charge this man like a phone #the mawkin were very invested in increasing their warriors' effectiveness in combat. and the suit is for more than just fighting #so a broad-spectrum high power module like that is highly valuable. #electricity. space radiation. charged miasma. you name it: he can probably 'plug in' to it. #he's not invincible and he can't exactly charge his suit in the heat of battle unless he's fighting in a location with great exposure #to charged matter or radiation. just don't fight him in a fallout zone and you're gucci. #i just had the image of him booking it for a nearby power plant to juice up in the middle of a fight snd it made me laugh #grampa's gotta get his talons in the good stuff before fighting it's like cranberry juice to him. it fixes everything. #'drink cranberry juice and eat radiation to get strong like me' -Raven Beak probably

[purpleleafsyt]

Nearly at 400 followers,,, I should do a dtiys,,

#purpletag #purpletalks #i dont have any concrete ideas for it #other than some vague ideas #like i could do something turbine/windtech related #or just. the DR kids in general #because i love them so much #or I could do something for my samurai sea moon au #aaauhhh many ideas... #ninjago #dragons rising #<- tagging for organization reasons

[your-god-empress-lavender]

Calcium sulphur batteries (uwu)

Okay, so, i've become interested in z-pinch studies for aerospace purposes (i'm really excited about the prospects, everything works on paper, but i naturally want to actually witness p+N14 fusion for above 0.01% of available protons before i go trying to get the materials to build a real liquid fueled SSTO fusion rocket, especially since there are thousands of folks way smarter than me who have presumably thought of this before and we don't have it yet, so yeah). Anyways, if i want the extremely large electricity input without making my electricity bill higher than a whole month's rent and getting my roommates mad at me, i'll need to collect solar or wind in a battery bank. Since lithium batteries are just about all immoral and expensive (yes i am writing this on a device powered by lithium batteries, it would be lovely if capitalists would take a hint and switch to things that just objectively perform better and are cheaper, but whatever), i figured this would be a nice excuse to experiment around with some new battery designs. Since all of them will require sulphur, i won't be able to really get into it before mid may due to some concerns about the smell and risks of getting sulphur powder everywhere (it's very yellow and hard to clean out), but i felt i might as well share my preliminary ideas. First off, in order to make the organic sulphur polymer, i'm looking to explore mostly citrate based polymers, perhaps with phenylalanine mixed in in order to both give more bulk as well as providing nitrogens for sulphenamides to form. Since i'll need urea later, i was also considering partially polymerizing urea with citric acid and adding that into the molten sulphur mix, but i'm less confident in the stability of that and a bit concerned about the potential noxious fumes produced. Regardless, that's the short of the sulphur cathode, details will definitely change after i refind that paper which went over a great way of preventing insoluble polysulphide production. I'm also gonna experiment with anode material and even the ions i use. I know i said "calcium sulphur batteries" in the title, but due to how common aluminium is and how much easier magnesium is to work with (and the fact that their specific energies are higher), i'll also be considering those two. Even beyond that, there are so many potential anode materials, including even amorphous carbon and carbon nitrides which i'd love to test since there's just so much to improve on and i'd rather do a lot of experiments with cheap to make materials and potentially land on a great solution than accept something subpar because it took less effort. Anyways, of the materials i plan on using, there's magnesium sulphate, aluminium sulphate, calcium chloride, potentially other calcium salts (is the salt with taurine soluble in water? IDK, can't find an answer so i'll test it), charcoal, vegetable oil, urea, and phenylalanine. Those may seem like an unrelated hodgepodge of compounds, but they've been chosen because they're what i have/will soon have and they're also all extremely cheap. If the urea works out well in the battery, i may have to make this project a meme and attempt to make a z-pinch device with as much urine as possible (use it to make ammonia for the plasma, to make the batteries, and i'm sure there's some way to use urine in a capacitor (maybe just distilling off the water to use as a dielectric? idk, it's been a while since i tried making a capacitor)).

Anyway, i really didn't expect this long trainwreck of a post to end with discussions of urine, but what can you do? This is all probably nonsensical, even by my standards, but basically i want batteries and i think i can make them cheaper per megajoule of stored energy than the ones i could buy, even accounting for the inevitable failed experiments.

#utter nonsense #chemistry? #batteries #calcium sulphur batteries are cool i guess #z-pinch shit #almost certainly the beginning of a ton of failures #fortunately i should be able to afford all the chemicals with less than 1 month of income (after rent and utilities and whatnot) #sulphur is so cheap #so am i lol #idk if i want to attempt to make my own solar or wind farm or just buy some turbines or solar cells #turbines are pretty easy so i might build some myself #magnets are relatively cheap and i can use them for other things #and if you know where to look (trashcans behind the college) wire is free #and to make the turbine blades i can just take some sheet metal from the same dumpsters as the wire #alternatively i could just try charging the batteries during off-hours when electricity is super cheap #or making a simple biofuel engine #i should also look into making the capacitors #good bye!

[deadmomjokes]

Me, panicking, staring at the toy aisle: What do little girls like? What do 4 year old little girls like? Bean, this is for your friend, you pick. What do we get her for her birthday?

Almost 3-year-old girlchild: SHE NEEDS A DINOSAUR

Me: A dinosaur.... To give as a gift to Princess Elsa at her Princess Dress-up Tea Party Girls-Only Birthday Bash. Yes, I think you’re right. She does, in fact, need a dinosaur.

#adventures of bean #this is meant to be a joke pls don't come for me #i just think it's funny how different my child's tastes are compared to her cohort #her class is full of fairy princess unicorn stans #and my daughter's over here obsessing over wind turbines race cars and dinosaurs #she's wearing a fluffy dress while she's at it but still #it's quite hilarious #(and yes the fluffy dress is her choice) #(I kinda wish she'd wear pants with how often she scrapes her knees) #(but hey you do you funky little sparkle dinosaur queen) #(that's why they make bandaids with cars on them) #also i told bean she could dress up for the party #and she says she wants to be lightning mcqueen #homegirl you overestimate my costuming skills even if we didn't have just 2 days' notice

[metallix-mixin]

uhhhh future au where metal gets rebuilt to be as tall as Eggman predicts sonic will be as an adult but he does a fucky wucky on the math and metal ends up way taller

#metal sonic #metal sonic au #sth #future #tall boi #soap shoes #because higata drip #second turbine intake on his abdomen but its an afterburner #for even more speed #uhh also hes still a sassy mf #and he has eyeliner #what more could you want

[raytorotits]

how would you describe coheed and cambria genre-wise? I've seen all sorts of descriptions lol

tough question! I mean they have ska songs and synth heavy dance tracks and straight up metal. so it gets complicated... but I'd call them prog rock with strong metal, emo, and pop-punk flavoring. because of that, and their symphonic elements, prog is really the easiest umbrella? plus long ass album titles and songs with multiple movements is such prog behavior

#you could argue second stage turbine blade is classic 3rd wave emo #and that vaxis ii is straifht pop punk #but because of that theyre just. prog

[aladdinsane26]

Anicka Yi

"In love with the world"

2021

Tate Modern

#tate modern #turbine hall #anicka yi #aerobes #floating squids #installation art #I could watch these forever #relaxing #calming #sensory

[clatterbane]

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Spotted on a milk carton earlier, and I had to get amused. May need to save some receipts, because my mother was a terrible influence on me. Hey, who could pass up a free towel cape? 😅

(Plus, we've been getting a lot of their stuff anyway. It's good.)

#silly #milk carton #dairy products #skåne #it's practically all farms and wind turbines #ha #welcome to sweden #she sent off for all the free shit she could find #pretty much

[noinou]

that one depression post like imagine if everything you ate always had the exact taste and texture of microwave potatoes. at some point it becomes pretty hard to justify purring effort into food was so right.

#op #i hate my job i hate my job i hate my job i hated being unemployed too i hate being cold i hate being hot i hate being stagnant #moving gives me panic attacks and im literally scared of sweat like i hate everything #you become mush before things get better but im mushing while my situation is better but still a lil fucked like my job isnt good enough #to not be reliant on my failing relationship with my parents for support #hatehathatehatehatehatehatehatehate #im just tired! all the time! sleep tired! wake tired! work tired! drive tired! buy groceries tired! fuck! #when i was 16 i used to day dream about a turbine with a diving board above it #so that maybe someone could charge their phone with the energy of my falling corpse

[arolesbianism]

Shaking and crying as I finally start working on some more long term oxygen production systems as if it's much more complicated than building a room with like 5 buildings inside all of which you can unlock without even building an advanced science station

#rat rambles #oni posting #ok well tbf technically you have tempurature to worry abt but as Ive said a million times already Im on rime so I dont have much excuse #by all means I should have set this up the second I had renewable water set up but I simply didn't want to #but now Im planning on saving my remaining algae for space exploration and already have a shit ton of hydrogen around my two bases #plus I need steam for a steam engine anyways so Im trying to make a spom thats built on top of a boiler room where mixed with #steam turbines Ill have steam to supply to my steam engine and water to supply to electrolisers #now ofc this will mean that Ill have to implement additional automation to only put in enough water to resupply whats being used so I don't #end up putting too much pressure in there for my systems to work properly #it should be fairly simple stuff tho as long as I dont make wildy inaccurate estimations #geneally the goal is to keep the room full of steam for power most of the time at high enough pressure that any steam taken out of the #system can be replaced quickly enough that the system doesn't have to partially shut down #for the heat generation needed to keep the room nice and hot Im considering linking my cooling system from my main base #basically switching my thermo aquatuners to the second base and using one cooling loop for both bases #which would be a pain in the ass to set up but might be worth it in the long run since the second base has been slowly warming #which wouldnt be a huge problem if it werent for my deep freezing area also slowly warming up #I should have placed insulated tiles around my kitchen back when I first built it but I was lazy so I sorta just forgot abt it #and its still cold in there dont get me wrong just not cold enough to deep freeze my food #which like. I produce enough food on that colony to be able to affort spoilage in a calorie sense but Id rly rather not deal with rot #like I Could send it back over to my main colony to feed to pokeshells but to make that an effective disposal method Id need to massively #up the amount of pokeshells I have and to do that effectively Id need to set up more automation to deal with the eggs #which like I Should probably do it I want to continue ranching pokeshells but idk if I do want to #I mostly just made a tiny ranch just for the sake of achievement progress #but like I would honestly like the security of having a source of renewable sand even if its not going to be a problem for a long Long time #especially given I get regolith meterors and dont actually consume that much sand currently #in theory I could start working on filtering out the remaining polluted oxygen floating around both bases but also I dont partially care #yes the oxygen consumption increases arent great but again I am not currently very worried abt oxygen #even if I changed absolutely nothing abt my oxygen production itd still take a very long time for things to get to dangerous levels #but that doesn't mean I shouldn't be setting up long term solutions it just means I didnt have to rush #I still dont but its beneficial enough to switch fully to electrolisers rn that Im finally going for it

[derpyhawker]

I'm reminded that many young and rich people today are tech bros and that makes me incredibly sad for aviation

Up until now having a FADEC on your small airplane wasn't super popular, not that it's bad or anything, it's just that most pilots are boomers and like flying their airplane the old fashioned way.

Now the new rich tech bros are starting to get aircraft with full glass instrumentation and FADECs where you only need to move a knob to control the engine. Sure they look cool and the tech is cool but theres something about the old stuff that I just love. And who wants to be bored in an airplane anyways

#if we could i would go back to when turbines had to be started by hand #makes sense why airliners use an automatic start but. starting a turbine is so cool and makes you feel so powerful

[vinegar-doppio-official]

if my therapist wants me to quit my job and my psychiatrist wants me to quit my job and I want to quit my job. Why am I not quitting my job

#Trick question it's because I'm scared of being unemployed forever after!!!!!! #Why does no one understand the fear. Like I get it I could work somewhere else I could I really could. But. Could I? #Also I got bills to pay what if it doesn't work #I'm not exactly tight on money right this moment but a single missed paycheck and I'd already be sweating bullets #Nevermind two or three or more months dry #I just really wanna be fired instead and have them pay off the years Ive worked there #Itd amount to a whole goddamn lot of money or at least enough to comfortably search for another job #Maybe even throw in some savings for a house or an apartment with my guy #Ughughfujfif why does this make me so anxious what is this unbelievable vice grip this job has on me... I need to get a degree Jesus #Also I wanna bomb the place I hate everyone in charge they can go get crushed up by a plane turbine my fuckin GOD

[victorluvsalice]

-->Victor and Shadow proceeded out into the darkness of the very early morning (seriously, it gets DARK in their neighborhood at night a lot -- what is this, Forgotten Hollow?) so Shadow could do her business away from the house for a change. Victor, of course, picked up the resultant mess like a good dog owner (who knows he can use that to fertilize all his plants) before taking her home and giving her a little playtime by the front door. :) Gotta show the doggo some love!

-->While he was out and about, Alice gobbled down her steak tartare, mopped up a slime creature in the blue upstairs bathroom, and then calmed down a grumpy Kelly before getting some cute kitty hugs, awww. Smiler, for their part, upgraded one turbine to have a lightning rod (so if they get another thunderstorm, it might get supercharged and get them more power reserves!), fixed another busted one, then cleaned out the chicken coop, finding a vitality fertilizer along the way. Usual morning routine, really!

-->Oh, and Elmer took care of all the plants in the garden -- weeding, watering, bug-spraying, everything -- and started wandering around the lot looking for more plants to tend. For some reason, it chose to ignore all the flowers by the front walk in favor of scanning the mailbox. *shakehead* Bot, come on, work with us here. I know it’s mostly made of wood but it’s not a tree! If you’re gonna tend anything, tend the daisies, I’m sure they could use some TLC.

#sims 4 #the lazy save #victor van dort #alice liddell #smiler always #yeah Henford-On-Bagley is a surprisingly cloudy world #why I'm reluctant to add solar panels to the gang's attempts to get a power surplus again #I don't know how effective they'd even be #meeeh #they're riding the ragged edge of disaster right now #I think replacing most of the lights in the house with candles DID help #just gotta stay on top of any broken turbines #and upgrade the ones currently in use #and yes Elmer that is a mailbox #not a plant #I appreciate the very good job you did in the greenhouse but #please just STAY in the greenhouse #I wish you could turn them off more remotely #you'll see Smiler basically have to chase it down to turn it off in a bit #ah well it is nice to have nonetheless #queued

[sowhatnotcreative]

It's kinda weird how sometimes people get stuck in only thinking about long term/short term consequences seperately. Like yea maybe a wind turbine isn't pretty right now cause you're not used to it, and maybe they have to cut some trees to put down solar panels but that's now? You're going to need energy for hundreds of years? Do you think anyone is going to even remember if this one spot on a endless horizon didn't have wind turbines before? Do you think it's worse to cut down a dussin trees once than what ever other energy was used for decades before? Trees grow back. Birds get used to wind turbines. Oil doesn't grow back. You can't undo a nuclear catastrophe.

A nuclear catastrophe is somehow something far off in the future and its just "barely a probability". Oil running out well thats in the faaar off future. You can just mine more coal! That's a consequence so far off I'll have died so it's not my problem! Environmental question? If it's even real thats for my great grandkids and not my problem! "The summers are so hot, when I was young we never had summers like this, but also don't be ridiculous there is no global warming".

#random thoughts #even water powerplants like it can ruin an entire ecosystem #it sounds environmental i guess cause yea water flows natually or what ever but those things are not exactly a little waterwheel #entire ecosystems can be destroyed #meanwhile you're angry that maybe the view from your window could have a wind turbine somewhere in the distance? #i don't know something's wrong with those priorities #not like im a particularly environmental person #and its a complex issue that im not educated enough on #i just wonder sometimes