Random Idea #64: By the awesome powers of zombies. · 4:10pm May 10th, 2019
A few days back, I was bored, and as you know, i decided to look up the torque curves for bicycles. Interestingly, like electric motors and steam engines, it is quite flat for most of its power range, then drops off once the pedaler is unable to pump their legs fast enough.
What I got out of it was that zombie legs pedaling a crankshaft in an I-4 arrangement was totally plausible.
Back when the game Dying Light was new, there was this series of tweets by an electrician that basically nerded out while drunk over how none of the city's electrical grid made sense, and shouldn't work.
So Techland put together a tongue in cheek little 'trailer,' explaining where the city got its power from:
So, yeah, zombie power. Could work, with a slight bio-hazard problem.
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Considering liches and necromancers with skill in biomanipulation feature heavily in my fic....