Seasons on ringworld
The temperature of your world will be related to the solar radiation that is not reflected away (by albedo), and is absorbed by the materials from which your world is made.
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Free Quote +Orion''s Arm
Using ramscoop technology to collect the solar wind provides the thrusters with cheap fuel. Alternately reactionless drives can be used, negating the fuel requirements, thus simplifying this
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Free Quote +TIP: Geothermal-heated greenhouses = solar flare-immune heat
Just build a room around a geothermal vent that''s out on growable soil, plant your crops and install sun lamps. Solar flares can knock out the sun lamps, of course -- but generally the loss of
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Free Quote +Solar generator
Lightning striking causes the generator to create a small amount of power. Generators are temporarily disabled by sources of EMP, with downtime scaling to the EMP damage dealt.
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Free Quote +A 20th-century society on a Ringworld
Nuclear power is not necessary as there is always 1500W/m² of solar radiation, since the radius of the ring is constant. Alternatively, instead of carrying the solar panels, power can be
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Free Quote +[Request] Given a star like our own, how much solar energy
The "ringworld" here is equivalent to the inner edge of an Alderson Disc world on which horses would have a perfect environment to live and grow before being rounded up and brought to
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Free Quote +The Ringworld: A Megastructure of Impossibility and Imagination
The Ringworld may fail the hard science test, but that doesn''t negate its power as a thought experiment. It forces us to confront questions fundamental to our drive to create, explore,
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Free Quote +Ringworlds and Shattered Ringworlds Should Have Generator
I would assume that this solar energy is how both hive minds and machine intelligences make generator areas on their ringworlds. Why wouldn''t a person, lizard, snail, etc. make a solar
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Free Quote +Wind turbine
One option is solar generators, although this creates a risk of having a large amount of power generated in one space that needs to be properly protected. Solar generators also don''t fit
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Free Quote +Do Solar Generators Block Wind Turbines Rimworld
No, solar generators do not block wind turbines in RimWorld —but their placement requires strategic planning to maximize efficiency. As a RimWorld veteran, you know power
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