The art of SCIENCE!

[allegedprisoner]

Sender: L. Balsa
To: Everyone
Subject: A potential solution

Good afternoon, everyone. As some of you may be aware, a kind of crystal that powers appliances has been discovered. In its current state it seems rather inefficient, as one must provide the crystal a steady source of strong dreammotion energy to keep it charged.

But what if you only had to give it one strong burst?

In the past, I believe I had a fascination with perpetual motion. While this is allegedly impossible due to the first and second laws of thermodynamics, but I don't think that will be much of a problem in these conditions. Allow me to explain through diagrams.
[ Here he sketches out a rough draft. It looks like some weird fusion of a tesla coil, a water wheel, and whatever this is. ]


The machine you see here requires only a single crystal, preferably spherical in shape. Hypothetically, as I have said, you would only need to provide a single burst of dreammotion energy to propel the crystal forwards. This will make the wheel turn, and as the crystal is already energized, the wheel should remain in motion and generate a decent amount of power for your home or business. I realize this is not true perpetual motion, but it should solve our electrical woes.

A special thanks to
[ There's a pause in writing. ]
Ms. Zelda for gifting me that crystal for Christmas. It has proved instrumental for my research. I've already made several prototypes for testing, so if anyone is willing to provide devices or appliances to experiment with I would greatly appreciate it. I'll even repair any damage that may occur in the process.

Comments

This took a while, whoops

[allegedprisoner]

Thank you, sir. I haven't tried the crystal in the pendant yet, since that would require dismantling it. It also seems a bit small for the purposes of larger scale energy generation.

Why do you ask?

np np

[flamekthunder]

No real reason, just a thought. It seemed similar to the rainbow crystals so I wondered if it could be used to amplify the power.

[allegedprisoner]

Why didn't I think of that? I'll have to try it during the experiments.

[ Something might explode, but that's for future Luca to deal with. ]

Wouldn't be able to apply it on a larger scale, though. Newcomers and the like wouldn't have access to the pendant and I get the feeling the crystals inside are very hard to come by.

[flamekthunder]

That's a fair enough point, and if there is something similar it would still need to be found.

But it wouldn't hurt to test the theory in case future dreamscapes provide similar "boosters," or if one could be engineered.

How difficult is it to study the components of the crystals?

[allegedprisoner]

I'm all for engineering such trinkets should we get the chance.

In theory, studying the components shouldn't be too difficult, but the scarcity of the crystals themselves combined with their powers means we'll need to be careful not to break anything. Last thing we need is to render them null and void.

[flamekthunder]

Perhaps just doing some general tests would be enough to get an idea of what to try and look for here. I know there are plenty of caves and caverns filled with ore. [And...crystal rock candy??] But there could be something else around.

Would it be possible to engineer a device that could detect power from the crystals? Or is the power too dormant to be able to do so?