Could someone design a stainless-steel prayer wheel that doubles as a hand-cranked device for condensing nitrogen from the atmosphere?
“We maintain this mechanism to honor our ancestors, that one day they may be reborn” sounds like the kind of thing some Shinto priestesses could’ve kept straight for all of recorded history, let alone a few centuries.
If you could persuade people to keep a fire lit in a certain location for most of the time, you could use the heat energy to power a TAD-OPTR cyrocooler with no moving parts. It’s an interesting idea.
You could design it so that the fire only has to be stoked 1% of the time on average, for example.
Could someone design a stainless-steel prayer wheel that doubles as a hand-cranked device for condensing nitrogen from the atmosphere?
“We maintain this mechanism to honor our ancestors, that one day they may be reborn” sounds like the kind of thing some Shinto priestesses could’ve kept straight for all of recorded history, let alone a few centuries.
Moving parts, it would break.
If you could persuade people to keep a fire lit in a certain location for most of the time, you could use the heat energy to power a TAD-OPTR cyrocooler with no moving parts. It’s an interesting idea.
You could design it so that the fire only has to be stoked 1% of the time on average, for example.