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riznar

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Feather Trees make better windmills - provide more power
« on: December 22, 2010, 05:24:31 pm »
Less weighty wood means more energy going directly to the mechanics
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Re: Feather Trees make better windmills - provide more power
« Reply #1 on: December 22, 2010, 05:37:18 pm »
not always true in physics... more weight for the mill means it can provide better "continuous amounts of power"

basically i think you should build more on this idea and deliver more content before you present it again since its basically kind of a short "thrown in effect"
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Re: Feather Trees make better windmills - provide more power
« Reply #2 on: December 23, 2010, 10:12:28 pm »
What would this mean for Glumprong and other unusually heavy woods?
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Re: Feather Trees make better windmills - provide more power
« Reply #3 on: December 23, 2010, 10:15:14 pm »
maybe something along the lines of lighter wood providing high power, under low winds, whereas heavy wood (read momentum) provides really high power under strong winds.
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Re: Feather Trees make better windmills - provide more power
« Reply #4 on: December 23, 2010, 10:21:03 pm »
Quote from: kilakan on December 23, 2010, 10:15:14 pm
maybe something along the lines of lighter wood providing high power, under low winds, whereas heavy wood (read momentum) provides really high power under strong winds.
Or will keep providing power after the wind is cut off/ takes a bit time to get to it's max potential.
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Re: Feather Trees make better windmills - provide more power
« Reply #5 on: December 23, 2010, 10:22:24 pm »
hum ya, so lighter woods power would fluctuate wildy with the wind, aka they would be terrible for things like pumps and other reliable devices.... where as heavy woods would be more reliable.
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Re: Feather Trees make better windmills - provide more power
« Reply #6 on: December 25, 2010, 02:27:00 pm »
I love this forum's direct approach of bringing on the physics of it.  8)
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Re: Feather Trees make better windmills - provide more power
« Reply #7 on: December 25, 2010, 03:11:01 pm »
Might have something to do with me just finishing Physics finals.
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Re: Feather Trees make better windmills - provide more power
« Reply #8 on: December 25, 2010, 10:22:25 pm »
Why the hell would you want or even need power anyway?

Also , Lighter woods doesn't mean that windmills would generate more Power , Hell , i don't even think it would last for five seconds before Screwing up the Mechanisms or even generate any proper power while that thing is spinning around like as if someone decided to Smack every single windmill into one windmill and make it spin all at once
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Re: Feather Trees make better windmills - provide more power
« Reply #9 on: December 26, 2010, 11:14:19 am »
alot of original windmills were actually made of very little wood, and a hell of alot of cloth, thus making them very light.  And I don't think there's any cases in history of a windmill taking off and flying away because it was light.
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