Drakkoniss
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Meh. I'm just curious as to exactly how much power it can put out at once. If it offers supposedly infinite energy, there would have to be either means of regulating it, either because there can only be so much put out at once, or it is a source that would naturally put out vast ammounts of energy or be capable of doing so (assuming in that case you/those who work for you had just discovered a way of tapping the potential of it).
Of course, if it is something that would naturally would be capable of doing that, as possited in the last part of my statement above, you are correct in saying that it entirely depends on what you use/how you get the energy out of it. If you limited something that was constantly putting out energy, either alot of energy would be lost, or you'd have to create a secondary power extraction system to store it for later useage, otherwise the energy would be lost, just like energy is lost in an explosion between the time it begins and the time the effects of it (such as blast waves and heat) hit the target. An example of using multiple ways to extract energy would be if something produces raw electricity, but also puts out alot of heat (say, a lightning bolt). You could use copper wiring or whatever method of conduction you would want to use to bring the electricity into proper use, but you could also surround it by water (either seperated by something like a metal plate, or not) to run a steam turbine and get even more power out of it.
In real life, people try to make use of all of the energy output capabilities (while maintaining safety and control, of course) of something at once, to constantly be able to put out energy, but if it were something like an ancient artifact that draws energy from another dimension, I suppose you could have it reasonably said that, yes, you could have it entirely dependent on what you use to translate that into an electrical energy source. It's just that in most reactions you either have to have the energy directly transfered into a power suply, or you'll lose it. This is why I was wondering just how much wattage your setup could put out at once/in a certain period of time (usually, it would be measured in hours, thus the term "watt-hour"), as theoretically you would think that an infinite energy source could either only put out so much at once, or would have inate dangers due to the fact that if you put out too much power in a limited period of time it could cause the infrastructure that transfers the electrical power to be damaged, causing electrical damage to other things or even mass blackouts.
There are theoretical infinite energy sources already, irl, such as magnetism (should we take advantage of the inate energy transference properties of its use and phenomina), but because of the way electricity is produced by them, they are inately limited (you generally do not actually produce electricity naturally/automatically in the power industry, but transfer it in the form of mechanical energy, generally in the form of torque, through a generator, and then make electricity as a result and/or byproduct; yes, you lose some of the energy in the process, but it is required in order to make it useable [also, you can only get magnets that are so strong, and if they are strong magnets that are large they would be difficult to get into place to make use of because of magnetism's effects on things that would transport them, among other concerns; electromagnets would also require you to put some power in in order to get the output going, which could cause difficulties with seting up a proper apperatus to produce more energy, and may actually not be viable to cause an increase in power levels, though they also could and it would either require more research or for testing that may already have been done on the subject to be brought into the realm of common knowledge; hard to say; If electromagnets were a viable option, it could make things simpler, possibly, though]).
Sorry about all the technical explanation after what you said. I just want to know the capabilities of this source of power, both because of the part it could play in our fictional version of the country's economy/status overall, and out of genuine curiousity as to how you actually get it to work and what it's able to do, overall. It's more the parameters of its effectivity than the process of how it works that I'm interested in (though I'd like to know that too), because it could be of importance to things in the RP.
< Message edited by Drakkoniss -- 5/25/2012 13:27:04 >
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