What exactly is powering the temple?

Hi this thought just occured to me. What is powering the temple? Because if it was nuclear powered a fission pile would have run out long ago they just cannot run for almost a thousand years without refueling. Now if it was a fusion plant that might work but then the temple would need a water intake from the lake so it could get a continuous supply of hydrogen. But a fusion plant would be readily detectable from quite a distance. Now it cannot be a hydroelectric plant as there is no where for the water to leave the temple. Also if the temple is using a geothermal plant then i would guess that there would not be that much exhaust heat. So i guess that the temple is powered by a geothermal power plant but that would have issues of its own. It cannot use wind or solar power as both would require above ground structures. So my best guess is that the temple is built on top of a natural gas or oil deposit and it is using some built in refinery allowing it to have a near limitless power supply.

So come one come all and share your thoughts on what exactly is keeping the mystical magical temple powered for all of these hundreds of years.

Why would a fusion plant be detectable? Especially if it's a couple kilometers under the temple. Nimue's Cave is much deeper in than that.

Did the Terran Federation have matter/anti-matter conversion? Do we know?

Nimue's cave is explicitly said to be geothermal powered. Given that Olympus is no more a volcano than Mount Everest is, Federation tech must have dug a bore hole to get that geothermal power... not to mention digging out Nimue's cave to begin with.

So if Nimue's Cave and its geothermal power tap can be dug out IN SECRET, digging a geothermal tap for the Temple should be child's play. Or at least use much the same tech without having to be secretive about it.

Edit: Also, the Temple's heat exhaust vents keep coming up every book or so, mostly to describe how Zion's poor keep clustering around them to stay warm during winter.

Hamsters on treadmills seem a logical choice.

captinjoehenry wrote:Hi this thought just occured to me. What is powering the temple? Because if it was nuclear powered a fission pile would have run out long ago they just cannot run for almost a thousand years without refueling. Now if it was a fusion plant that might work but then the temple would need a water intake from the lake so it could get a continuous supply of hydrogen. But a fusion plant would be readily detectable from quite a distance. Now it cannot be a hydroelectric plant as there is no where for the water to leave the temple. Also if the temple is using a geothermal plant then i would guess that there would not be that much exhaust heat. So i guess that the temple is powered by a geothermal power plant but that would have issues of its own. It cannot use wind or solar power as both would require above ground structures. So my best guess is that the temple is built on top of a natural gas or oil deposit and it is using some built in refinery allowing it to have a near limitless power supply.

So come one come all and share your thoughts on what exactly is keeping the mystical magical temple powered for all of these hundreds of years.

Unless I am misreading the map, the Temple sits almost right on the river between Lake Pei and Temple Bay so if they need to either take in and process or get rid of waste water, it shouldn't be all that hard to arrange.

As for how the Temple is kept up and going, my own vote would be for geothermal. That would probably be more risk free than the alternatives.

Don

chickladoria wrote:Hamsters on treadmills seem a logical choice.

GENIUS IT IS THE OBVIOUS ANSWER!!!!

p.s. i have a funny story involving hamsters, warhammer 40k, and a very short D&D campaign i can share if anyones interested.

captinjoehenry wrote:

chickladoria wrote:Hamsters on treadmills seem a logical choice.

GENIUS IT IS THE OBVIOUS ANSWER!!!!

p.s. i have a funny story involving hamsters, warhammer 40k, and a very short D&D campaign i can share if anyones interested.

It can't be better than the halfling barbarian horde and rabid man eating hamster migration that a certain GM pulled on our group.

Isilith wrote:

captinjoehenry wrote:
GENIUS IT IS THE OBVIOUS ANSWER!!!!

p.s. i have a funny story involving hamsters, warhammer 40k, and a very short D&D campaign i can share if anyones interested.

It can't be better than the halfling barbarian horde and rabid man eating hamster migration that a certain GM pulled on our group.

well in that case here it is:

So in my schools D&D club we were all making new character sheets and about 5 of us finished long before the rest as we had done it before so we decided to do a quick D&D session set in the warhammer 40k universe. So we all chose one role or another space marine an assassin thing or something else. Then we were sitting in our bunker when the tyranids tried to invade the planet. I rolled to identify them and I rolled a 1 so i identified them as SPACE HAMSTERS!!!! after this we fought them a bunch madness ensued and it all ended up in the bowels of our base where we rolled to see what happens and lo and behold we discovered a real hamster which we rolled a 1 in identifying and yep HOLY SHIT ITS A TYRANID!!!! Now i probably failed to convey just how hilarious this was but i assure you that all involved in this campaign were laughing our butts off the whole time

the moral of the story is that when you roll a 1 fun stuff happens or you die epicly

Now one other story in a different campaign one of our members had lost his weapons so he asked the DM if he could us a FIVER FINGER DEATH PUNCH the dm said sure if you roll a natural 20 and yep he rolled a 20 naturally after that all of the remaining enemies focused on him as you know he just punched this guy and he exploded.

Oh one last thing in the same campaign we had an orc sorcerer who only used animate rope and he proclaimed himself the GOD OF ROPE so we all got behind it and did some real nifty tricks and much to the surprise of the DM we ended up getting him like 20+ followers who believed he was the god of rope. Afterwards in our future D&D games we proclaimed that the god of rope was a valid god.

captinjoehenry wrote:
[snip]

Oh one last thing in the same campaign we had an orc sorcerer who only used animate rope and he proclaimed himself the GOD OF ROPE so we all got behind it and did some real nifty tricks and much to the surprise of the DM we ended up getting him like 20+ followers who believed he was the god of rope. Afterwards in our future D&D games we proclaimed that the god of rope was a valid god.

Haha - sounds like you guys had fun. How about we open a 'fun roleplay scenes' thread? Actually - let's just do it. I'll open one in 'Free Range Topics'