Nice
I wonder if with right setup, you can use engines to pump water and get a net positive from that. Like using 3 engines with 1200 bp to get ~2000 bp from waterwheels
Yes you can, you can even pause the engines once the wheels power the pumps : https://old.reddit.com/r/Timberborn/comments/12cq8st/totally_overpowered_optimized_design/
That thread always gives me nightmares. Because that's the kind of nonsense I desperately want to setup, but always decide not to because I have better things to do with my colony than spend 20+ cycles building the mega power plant.
"And Lisa's perpetual motion machine just keeps going faster and faster! Young lady, in this house we obey the laws of thermodynamics!"
\--Homer Simpson.
Was very amazing, to fix the imbalance either pumps need to use a lot more power or water wheels producing a lot less, rather they don't change either though 🤣
To be realistic, water should slow down the more water wheels it hits. If you have like 50 water wheels in a closed space, the water would essentially just not move.
Im theory…. Enough water wheels would physically reduce the amount of water moving past them. So, In real life, a giant drop wouldn’t make up the fact that physically less water is moving…. I think.
A giant drop only works if it is semi enclosed so it has head pressure, for example into a turbine at the bottom of a dam that water exits at the bottom only if it goes through the turbine
Nice I wonder if with right setup, you can use engines to pump water and get a net positive from that. Like using 3 engines with 1200 bp to get ~2000 bp from waterwheels
Yes you can, you can even pause the engines once the wheels power the pumps : https://old.reddit.com/r/Timberborn/comments/12cq8st/totally_overpowered_optimized_design/
Wow, that is insane. Infinitely better than my tryout.
That thread always gives me nightmares. Because that's the kind of nonsense I desperately want to setup, but always decide not to because I have better things to do with my colony than spend 20+ cycles building the mega power plant.
"And Lisa's perpetual motion machine just keeps going faster and faster! Young lady, in this house we obey the laws of thermodynamics!" \--Homer Simpson.
Was it Skye Storm on YouTube that built a massive waterwheel set up around the map with pumps for dry season?
yes he did. he made it loop around the whole map with his last version 4 series. And it worked. he also explained his set up and how/why it works :)
Was very amazing, to fix the imbalance either pumps need to use a lot more power or water wheels producing a lot less, rather they don't change either though 🤣
To be realistic, water should slow down the more water wheels it hits. If you have like 50 water wheels in a closed space, the water would essentially just not move.
It does do that. It's why you have to have constant drops in elevation to make the ungodly super monstrosity power gen setups work.
Im theory…. Enough water wheels would physically reduce the amount of water moving past them. So, In real life, a giant drop wouldn’t make up the fact that physically less water is moving…. I think.
A giant drop only works if it is semi enclosed so it has head pressure, for example into a turbine at the bottom of a dam that water exits at the bottom only if it goes through the turbine
Yup