Okaycan I run an idea past you clever people (urgh last minute research is no fun at all)? I just wanna know some yay or nays on whether this sounds like it makes sense. I recently had to do some research, and
ask around on the nanoforums with regards to
electricity production in an isolated civilisation where there is no outside option. I had considered a variety of ideas from car batteries to solar power, but none seemed suitable for providing even limited power to an entire town.
I eventually settled on the idea of using an on location Sawmill/Timbermill, which are often located near water sources (and water is one of the few natural environmental factors I have to work with) in order to create power. I discovered from folks in the forum than many sawmills use their own waste products - useless wood and so on, inorder to power the steam generators which then create the electricity that runs their facilities. In some cases, they produce so much energy doing this, that they are able to proide electricity back into the grid and power other buildings.
Now... imagining that the timber was NOT being used a great deal and could simply be burned for fuel... ALL the power the factory produced could be used to power a town, right? if it was a smallish sort of mill, then it could be used specifically to power the most important places - hospitals, refridgerators and so on, but either way we'd HAVE power... that makes sense, right?
This also gives me a potential JOB for a character (who's intro scene I may have to rewrite because I don't want him coming across as a thoughtless arsehole >.>), as well as a potential place to hide my SUPER SECRET HIDDEN THING. Which I am not gonna tell you... cause it is
secret.
Posted: Sun Nov 04, 2012 5:03 pm
