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[Cryxis, Prince of Doom]

Well too bad, I've got three and a half pages out of five finished, will post in edited form in writter's aprentice thread tomorrow.
I didn't do too good but it's definitely gothic writing, I like it.

[wierd]

Hey, It's just what popped into my head with that strange list of plot devices. It's a little too saccharine for my tastes though.  Just thought I would share.

Still, the stirling engine is basically the most efficient heat engine possible, AND is conveniently 19th century technology.

[hops]

Talking about steampunk, now I want a carbonpunk where everything fucking thing is made out of carbons.

[i2amroy]

Black lung disease for the win alex.

Ordinary soot (like the old 1900s industrial pollutant) contains a fairly significant number of carbon nanotubes, as well as other allotropes of carbon.
Such ordinary soot was one of the primary causes of black lung disease of urban dwellers in the 1900s.

It's kinda funny that you mention that. In many of the tests of health effects on mice, the control group was administered ultra-fine carbon black, which caused, to quote them "minimal effects" . The problem is basically that you combine the bad health effects and buildup of the carbon with the fact that the entire substance is now composed of tiny, tiny needles that are adept at piercing through cells and inflaming others.

On another note about how carbon is OP though, don't forget about the graphene sheets that have wholes that only let water and smaller molecules through, automatically filtering out all larger contaminants.

[wierd]

Indeed, but I am not making it up about carbon nanotubes being present in soot.

Soot contains this highly exotic blend of nanotubes, buckyballs, amorphous carbon aggregates, graphene patches, and all sorts of novel configurations all jumbled together.

Using it as a control vs refined nanotubes just means "Yup, some of the components in soot are benign compared to refined nanotubes."

[Cryxis, Prince of Doom]

I was asking about a steam engine compared to a gasoline engine, are there any steam engines that would be more efficient (at say running a car or motercycle*) than gasoline powered counterparts. I understand steam engines aren't powered by the steam instead by something that heats the stream and the steam then goes through a system of turbines which blah blah run whatever you are trying to run through said engine. Right? I'm not well learned on engines at all...

*now I can't stop thinking about a real steampunk steam powered motercycle.

[miauw62]

I concur, Stirling engines are pretty great.

[forsaken1111]

I concur, Stirling engines are pretty great.

penis

[Cryxis, Prince of Doom]

I concur, Stirling engines are pretty great.

penis

oh thank god I'm not the only one

[miauw62]

Why do you think I linked that?

[Descan]

Look at the talk page on the desktop version of that image.

[Sergarr]

Desktop version?

[forsaken1111]

Science makes me giggle sometimes.

Desktop version?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_talk:BetaStirlingTG4web.svg

[Descan]

The as-linked image had "en.m.wiki" which is the mobile version. I don't know if you can get to the talk page from there or if it's the same one, but I didn't see a button or link so I redirected y'all to the normal website, which has an easy link to the talk page in question.

[miauw62]

Oh, whoops. I forgot to clean the link.