Anybody know anything about Solar or Geothermal energy?

Castenea wrote:

Weird Harold wrote:Since Charis is an Island -- an the Empire of Charis is a collection of Islands -- what applications of Tidal Power might be found?

Best application until the proscriptions are lifted is undershot waterwheel.

Castenea wrote:

Weird Harold wrote:Since Charis is an Island -- an the Empire of Charis is a collection of Islands -- what applications of Tidal Power might be found?

Electrical Generation after the proscriptions are lifted, of course, but is there any potential for earlier?

Best application untill the proscriptions are lifted is undershot waterwheel. Even after proscriptions are lifted, it is a lot of capital invested for power at best 1/3 of the time.

Weird Harold wrote:How would the power be transmitted to the working location, or are you proposing build factories on/over tidal flats?

Castenea wrote:User of the power would need to be on or adjacent to the tidal flats, since the power transmission tech available without electricity is limited. Most likely location of user of said power is at one end of the dam.

How Firm a Foundation wrote:The huge tower rose fifty feet into the air. A trio of blast furnaces clustered around it, and on the far side, a long, broad structure—a workshop of some sort—stretched into the night. The workshop was two stories tall, its walls pierced by vast expanses of windows to take advantage of natural light during the day. Now those windows glowed with internal light, spilling from lanterns and interspersed with frequent, far brighter bursts of glare from furnaces and forges within it.

“In another couple of months, I’ll have nine of them up and running,” Howsmyn continued. “I’d like to have more, honestly, but at that point we’ll be getting close to the capacity the river can supply. I’ve considered running an aqueduct from the mountains to increase supply, but frankly an aqueduct big enough to supply even one accumulator would be far too expensive. It’d tie up too much manpower I need elsewhere, for that matter. Instead, I’m looking at the possibility of using windmills to pump from the lake, although there are some technical issues there, too.”

Weird Harold wrote:

Castenea wrote:User of the power would need to be on or adjacent to the tidal flats, since the power transmission tech available without electricity is limited. Most likely location of user of said power is at one end of the dam.

Perhaps a tidal water wheel/turbine could power pumps to fill a "hydro-accumulator some distance from the shore with sea water? That would permit a bit more flexibility in location and structure for whatever industry you needed power for.

How Firm a Foundation wrote:The huge tower rose fifty feet into the air. A trio of blast furnaces clustered around it, and on the far side, a long, broad structure—a workshop of some sort—stretched into the night. The workshop was two stories tall, its walls pierced by vast expanses of windows to take advantage of natural light during the day. Now those windows glowed with internal light, spilling from lanterns and interspersed with frequent, far brighter bursts of glare from furnaces and forges within it.

“In another couple of months, I’ll have nine of them up and running,” Howsmyn continued. “I’d like to have more, honestly, but at that point we’ll be getting close to the capacity the river can supply. I’ve considered running an aqueduct from the mountains to increase supply, but frankly an aqueduct big enough to supply even one accumulator would be far too expensive. It’d tie up too much manpower I need elsewhere, for that matter. Instead, I’m looking at the possibility of using windmills to pump from the lake, although there are some technical issues there, too.”

PeterZ wrote:I believe the are more than one and they give much more light than Terra experiences.

fallsfromtrees wrote:

PeterZ wrote:I believe the are more than one and they give much more light than Terra experiences.

Do we know if it is due to a higher albedo, or greater size?

PeterZ wrote:I believe the are more than one and they give much more light than Terra experiences.

fallsfromtrees wrote:Do we know if it is due to a higher albedo, or greater size?

DrakBibliophile wrote:Only one Moon has been mentioned. David Weber has said that it's both larger than our Moon and has a higher albedo.

DrakBibliophile wrote:Only one Moon has been mentioned. David Weber has said that it's both larger than our Moon and has a higher albedo.

fallsfromtrees wrote:

DrakBibliophile wrote:Only one Moon has been mentioned. David Weber has said that it's both larger than our Moon and has a higher albedo.

Is that in one of the info dumps, or was it in a post from before when I joined the forum? Is it possible to give a pointer to the info? Thanks