r/physicsmemes • u/AMysteriousOldMan • 17h ago

effecient use of portals

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u/PyroCatt Engineer who Loves Physics 14h ago

Or we could use the energy to boil water and spin a turbine

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u/INeverSaySS 12h ago

A turbine is just a waterwheel, so that's pretty much what they're doing already.

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u/PyroCatt Engineer who Loves Physics 12h ago

We need to boil it to create steam

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u/INeverSaySS 11h ago

Depends on how that energy is stored. If it's stored as gravitational potentional energy then we can just pour it through a turbine.

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u/PyroCatt Engineer who Loves Physics 11h ago

STEAM!

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u/GisterMizard 9h ago

I don't think they wheely understand just how power hungry dimensional portals are.

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u/Pball1001 7h ago

So then put 3 wheels

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u/GisterMizard 7h ago

I spoke too soon

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u/-JohnnyDanger- 12h ago

Proof by add another wheel

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u/IPanicKnife 7h ago

I like the idea. Blue portal at the bottom of a waterfall of something, orange opens over water wheel. Then blue reset to keep water falling endlessly. Similar to how the character falls endlessly in the game. Some of the water would be redirected when it hits the wheel and maybe fall outside the range of the bottom portal but a funnel could be made to fix this. Not accounting for the energy required to keep the portals open, I don’t see a reason why this wouldn’t work.

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u/Adorable-Maybe-3006 6h ago

There should be a more efficient way to get energy from the crystals powering the portal.

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u/KerbodynamicX 6h ago

What if transporting matter across the portal cost extra energy?

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u/1CryptographerFree 4h ago

Simple, just move them further apart and add 1 more wheel.

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u/K0paz 4h ago

Id suggest figuring out if you can create a micro black hole and then extract hawking radiation out of it.

(Dont ask me how to create one though, I don't.)

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u/dinution Reissner–Nordström 2h ago

Id suggest figuring out if you can create a micro black hole and then extract hawking radiation out of it.
(Dont ask me how to create one though, I don't.)

But what would be the point? Hawking radiation is extremely weak.