On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 7:31 AM, Zan Lynx <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2/24/2010 4:27 AM, Chris LeBron wrote: >> >> There's a spell in an Pyramid article -- one of the Tech College ones, >> specifically. The spell converts sunlight over an area into mana >> points > > ... >> >> I'm sure you can see where this is going. Yeah, I'm building a >> space-based Near-Infinite Mana Generator. But I've got plans for it! >> >> What if you send a Solar Collector to the 'Belt, and have it power the >> construction of Golems to mine for valuable materials? Or to Venus or >> Mercury? And then use the materials recovered to build new Collectors, >> or add to the older one? These would all be very neat things. >> >> Problem is, I don't know how to do the math for it. Specifically, I'm >> tripping over the inverse of "at point N from a light source you get X >> amount of light, at point N2 you get 1/4X, and point N3 you get 1/9X, >> etc." I get that one, but whet about when you go closer to a light >> source from a known point? I know how powerful it would be from Earth >> orbit, and I can calculate for the 'Belt, but what about Venus and >> Mercury? >> >> Does anyone have some advice, hopefully not involving SIN, COS, or TAN? > > Use the mana to power a Force Dome as well and place the collection station > ON THE SUN! Woohoo!
Good point. At that point, you're really edging into, "and I call 14 kick-your-ass-tillion war golems down on your heads". But I can think of a number of immobile installations that could be run off of that power quite nicely. But what is the concentration of sunlight when you're actually ON THE SUN? Assuming a value of 1 at Earth orbit. _______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l
