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Old 04-11-2020, 03:53 PM   #31
Luke Bunyip
 
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Default Re: [AtE] Heirloom tech?

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First up I apologise for leading you astray about fuel cells...
You're good. As a rather productive part of the hive mind, in my mind you've earnt the right to be occasionally less than on the money. But it's times like this that it's good to know that there's an underemployed physics researcher out there when you need one.

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If you fudge geography a bit or possibly add a "recent discovery" to your world, you have the possibility of using the "great artesian basin"* as a power source.
My crew would baulk at that. Suspension of disbelief is a delicate thing....

Improvised wind powered generation is possibly a better fit.

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*Australians use the word great in a lot of geography, and here's me going over my fantasy world building in the past to edit out the word because I thought it came up too much.
To the immediate NW of the PCs starting point is a geographical feature known as the Little Desert. If we are anything, it's that we are consistently inconsistent.
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