On 2/24/2010 9:41 AM, [email protected] wrote:
From: Zan Lynx<[email protected]>
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?
It's the same progression, but since distance from the sun decreases,
you'll be getting multiples larger than 1.
Earth: 93 million miles from the sun
(93/93)*(93/93)= 1*1 = 1x
Venus: 68 million miles from the sun
(93/68)*(93/68)= 1.37*1.37 = 1.88x
Mercury (farthest): 43 million miles
(93/43)*(93/43)= 2.16*2.16 = 4.67x
Mercury (closest approach): 29 million miles
(93/29)*(93/29)= 3.21*3.21 = 10.3x
Icarus (closest approach): 18 million miles
(93/18)*(93/18)= 5.17*5.17 = 26.7x
Use the mana to power a Force Dome as well and place the collection
station ON THE SUN! Woohoo!
"the interior is always in twilight"
--
Jeff Wilson - [email protected]
IEEE Student Chapter Blog at
< http://ieeetamut.org >
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