Thermoelectric tether power harpoon

EvilSmooEvilSmoo Join Date: 2008-02-16 Member: 63662Members
edited May 2017 in Ideas and Suggestions
Fire a harpoon with a tether, surrounded by an insulated thread of superconducting cable. One harpoon into a heat vent, another... probably just a buoy with heat dissipation fins?

Utilize temperature difference for power generation.

There has GOT to be a better name for this.


Inspired at least a little by the time Louis Wu boiled an ocean. Go read Ringworld and the sequel if you haven't already. (Book 3 and 4 are even better, IMO.)
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  • jamintheinfinite_1jamintheinfinite_1 Jupiter Join Date: 2016-12-03 Member: 224524Members
    Nice but people might see it as a weapon instead.





    We don't want that to happen
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  • EvilSmooEvilSmoo Join Date: 2008-02-16 Member: 63662Members
    It shouldn't be any more effective than ramming things with a Seamoth. The harpoon is built to tether to seabottom, not penetrate fishies.
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  • Micah2DaMaxMicah2DaMax Join Date: 2017-05-29 Member: 230816Members
    Cool idea! Maybe you could call it something like: the Power Tether.
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  • JozrozJozroz Sweden Join Date: 2017-05-15 Member: 230525Members
    Might this not make the thermal plant redundant? Additionally, it would make too easy to deploy as it would remove the need to go in with a reinforced dive suit, and thermal power should remain a somewhat more late-game power source, in my opinion.
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  • EvilSmooEvilSmoo Join Date: 2008-02-16 Member: 63662Members
    Jozroz wrote: »
    Might this not make the thermal plant redundant? Additionally, it would make too easy to deploy as it would remove the need to go in with a reinforced dive suit, and thermal power should remain a somewhat more late-game power source, in my opinion.

    Sure, if you only ever plan to use a single thermal plant, and hook it directly to the Cyclops.

    So... no. This is to recharge the Cyclops in the field, this is not a base power system. Two entirely different things.
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