Tom Woods and I are working on powering Afelahn properly. At the moment, the only energy sources are the few firemarbles for the light, and a small generator for electricity. But it won´t be long, that I will need much more energy for different purposes.
So we sat together the other day, and discussed, what to do. The most promising variant of power source would be a D’ni power marble.
These are, according to DPWR, “a special type of firemarble which explode when struck, releasing all of their energy at once, rather than glowing softly like normal firemarbles do. They were invented by the D’ni as a way to power heavy machinery”.
Other sources, like geothermal, water or wind energy aren´t feasible in the age or would be difficult to install.
So, I will likely have to cut out a “generator room” for a D’ni power device.
The only problem with power marbles is, that they are rather dangerous. They store so much energy, that they can easily explode… So we´ll have to take serious precautions to prevent my working space from annihilation. Maybe some heavy door for the generator room? And I had the idea of making the generator room higher than normal, so that possible kinetic energy from an explosion would have more room to disperse.
Will have to sort that out.
Another topic:
I started to gather eggs from Alitnee. Learned to empty and clean them BEFORE bringing them to Afelahn (the foul stench of the first batch still is smellable – Yuck!)
They come in various sizes, from a centimeter to double the size of a chickens egg. And the colors are rather beautiful. I plan to install some kind of display case to show the prettiest ones.
I may be incorrect, but I believe Powermarbles may be native to Riven. At any rate Blake Heatley had some success with firemarble batteries.
I myself have an alternate powersource, it may not be the most powerful but it’s stable.
http://mystonline.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=24681
Ah, thank you for the information, I´ll do some research on that!
The alternate powersource you have is very interesting, I like the concept!
Okay, I did some research now and found an old thread in the DPWR-forums. One of the posters found some information in an old DRC-thread (which seems to have vanished since then, I couldn´t find it).
Link: Link to DPWR-Forum
I think, this proofs that powermarbles indeed existed in D’ni as well, as we had thought.