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Flight abilities are taking off well, though I wonder if instead of eating tools, Dragons could find machining swarf and chips similar to packets of pork scratchings? that is, until they can get induction crucibles running and get the slag and leftovers from castings etc?
The reason for the proposal for ducted jet propulsion, is that you dont need giant prop shafts, or the facilities etc, as well as a bunch of other considerations. Trying to handle all the varying viscocities is fun, coming from plastic injection moulding university courses. The only things more complicated are reentry vehicles, plasmas, and the military stuff that sensible people avoid.
Sirocco is strange, the room deck layout makes me think of Starbug from Red Dwarf, but the cockpit layout makes me think of Robert Vaughs character Gelds ship in Battle Beyond The Stars?
I wonder if the gas cloud is being generated continously, given its still in place, as most things leak a little or go up with a big unstable blast then at least dissipates, leaving remains behind?
If you use Hero turbogenerators, going through batteries and electric motors, you dont need piston technology except for positive displacement pumps?
Good chapter. I'm not chagrined about the discussions of bilge waste... I've seen enough of it.
I only know oil purifiers we used at sea, two different makes, the Sharples and the DeLaval systems. Once, on my first ship, we found that seawater had managed to contaminate most of the lube oil systems aboard except for one. That was a bitch and a half to clean up. Fortunately, we were just starting a port visit, and after that did a speed run back to Charleston.
Have you looked at Jay911's stories about Toronto? The ponies there broadcast on AM and FM, clear channel, able to be heard in Alexandria when the time and weather is right. I used to pull in a Toronto station on my truck radio most nights when I was living east. AM travels at night...
Ah, here...The Coming Storm and After the Storm, along with my story The Road to Toronto. May that be of help to you.
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Uh, wonder how that would come about. I'd imagine either a fucked up cofferdam, or a leak in a centrifugal pump from the ballast system contaminating the whole network, but that might need the mechanical seal on the impeller to be seriously FUBAR to leak so much. Still, yeah, you got my sympathy, oily emulsion is a bitch to get rid of.
Going to now. That being said, I have no illusions about Amandine's radio range regarless of frequency, that's why they need to seed relays as they go.
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The linear room layout of a Starbug is only present in the part Alejandro described as 'the turtle's neck', which is kind of a protusion ahead and above the hull/shell meant for the pilot to have good view and still be close to the chart room and his cabin. For the 'main deck' where the common room and passenger cabins are, I'd just imagine a straight line drawn between the two balloons. That's the main structure holding the accomodation.
You go up, that's the weather deck, you go below, that's utility spaces, tanks, and the cargo hold in the belly. And of course, on either side, you got the balloons which hold the gas bags and engine nacelles (them being fed steam from a central coal slurry burner below the accomodation, which also provides steam for the pump systems).
That's the thing with the water injector idea. If the fuel they need to recycle is HFO that's been cold and abandonned for months or years, the viscosity will be ridiculously high. Like tar sand. The system Schmitt wants need to work both for MDO, gasoline, and even HFO.
In my eyes it would be simpler to use a high pressure hose to just turn it into an oil emulsion to make it pumpable, do all the stuff with biocides and chemicals to fix up the hydrocarbons in the solution, and at last remove water from the process. The disavantage, as stated, would be the production of large quantities of waste water in need of depollution.
Then again, no EPA or Greenpeace after the apocalypse...
You raise a good point with that and I just binged through the chemical properties of slag and gems. In canon we see dragons eat gems, which are metal and silicon oxides like you'd find in slag. Normally, they should be able to process it as normal, but which would be better from a nutritive viewpoint? Pure metal from tools or oxydes from gems, ore and slag?
Dragons could also have been silicon/mineral based lifeforms, but the metal jig is more of a secondary element for their health, since they still need regular food for energy. Most likely one of the reasons they run hot like that is because their digestive track needs the temperature to run a chemical reactor that's able to separate metals from oxydes... which are then used in their bone and scale structure to give them their natural resilience.
What about refining crude oil in mini refineries?
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It's definitely viable, and might even be ideal in certain cases, but there is a caveat.
To run a refinery, you need crude oil.
The cleaning system they're aiming for intends to recycle product oil, and that's where the difference sits.
Availability
Nearly every port contains a refueling station that's linked to shore tanks where the sailors could locate a supply of recyclable fuel. The supply is not infinite, but it is found almost everywhere in varying quantities.
Getting crude oil is more sustainable [cough] the irony [cough], but it's not as readily found all over the world. You'd need to either locate and operate a well (on sea or land), or get it from a crude oil terminal. There is a lot of them, but that's nowhere near as much as you'd find stockpiled fuel.
That being said, colonies in areas like the Middle-East or Venezuela could easily spare a hangar to run such a refinery and have an energy supply to last them a while.
Of course nobody/nopony said a ship couldn't load both systems.
O WSU radio is going to be a blast.
it kind of reminds me of watching my boy play Fallout a few years back.
as to a survivor for your story i may have a idea for way latter in the travels.
In Australia my friends and I have a group of survivors starting up a sanctuary town atop the Youyang regional parks tallest mountain. Its a mere ten or so minute drive from the coast and several ports.
At the moment they're gathering themselves and planning a course of action for the mountaintop town.
They all get together around a month and spare change of the event.
There are currently thirteen of us there and out of all of us theres a single satilite phone. I imagine we'd all be overjoyed to know theres somone out there that has the potential to help
Current naval strength is a single (mostly completed) LCS Liberty class destroyer. (Acting as a transport ship/mobile settlement for picking up survivors and escaping land if it gets too hairy)
And a TOLLS cargoship thats stuck in port waiting for most of their crew to reappear.
Our group may be in trouble though... our skillsets are rather random...
Two pilots, an agriculture/geology major, one police officer, four tradies (construction workers or general civilian contractors), then the rest are students or kids...
The story is called 'Along Didgeri Trails'