05-27-2020, 09:21 AM | #21 |
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Re: [Cyberpunk Engineering Challenge] #2 Typhoon Abatement Platform
My suggestion that the tower function as a turbo-sail was the best I could come up with. I gave a link to a page on those earlier.
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05-27-2020, 09:32 AM | #22 |
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Re: [Cyberpunk Engineering Challenge] #2 Typhoon Abatement Platform
Hmm.. there are also rotor ships (pics!), but I suspect aero-propulsion won't have enough thrust for this lumbering hulk.
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Re: [Cyberpunk Engineering Challenge] #2 Typhoon Abatement Platform
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05-27-2020, 09:51 AM | #24 |
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Re: [Cyberpunk Engineering Challenge] #2 Typhoon Abatement Platform
I admit that I started with the aesthetics then worked backward from there to justify them. For a massive turbine, it's more important to have high edges than a high centre. Currently I'm thinking the high central tower can be a platform for the laser and lightning systems, and I have a fanciful notion that it might be useful for a giant EM field generator. Observation is another option, fulfilling the role of modern hurricane flights. Otherwise, it's mainly there to look neat.
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05-29-2020, 11:54 PM | #25 |
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Re: [Cyberpunk Engineering Challenge] #2 Typhoon Abatement Platform
Additionally, the platform, constructed by a German structural engineering firm, could be a test bed for building the super-tall business and residential towers that they have planned for seastead/artificial island cities in the Caribbean (such as in the New Caribbean Archipelago idea here.)
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