Comments on: World Problems = Solved! [PIC]

By: Asfesaf

Asfesaf — Mon, 01 Nov 2010 03:42:00 +0000

evaporation

By: Mjm5220

Mjm5220 — Fri, 29 Oct 2010 08:52:00 +0000

Haha! Novel, yet energy would have to go into maintaining the portals. It's Science.

Best game I've played in awhile though. :-)

By: Joey

Joey — Sun, 24 Oct 2010 21:40:00 +0000

Looks like someone never even played the game this is a reference to…

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 15:51:00 +0000

Lose the portals and the rules.

By: dave

dave — Thu, 07 Oct 2010 04:58:00 +0000

the water would evaporate

By: Reid Moore

Reid Moore — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 01:34:00 +0000

Even if these portals didn't require an energy source, and the waterwheel was fully hydrophobic (meaning none of the falling water would stick to it at all) and the portals had "funnels" to make sure that every drop of water continued to stay in the stream, the water would eventually evaporate. Nothing's free.

By: Garyoak0707

Garyoak0707 — Sat, 11 Sep 2010 20:07:00 +0000

Wouldn't the water just run out anyway…

By: Garyoak0707

Garyoak0707 — Sat, 11 Sep 2010 20:07:00 +0000

Wouldn't the water just run out anyway…

By: Richard Koehler

Richard Koehler — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 19:48:00 +0000

Already written about at length by Larry Niven in the short essay "Exercise in Speculation: The Theory and Practice of Teleportation" in the short story collection All the Myriad ways. He starts with water and moves to metal filaments. he also discusses what happens when the water starts increasing in speed because it is falling an essentially infinite distance.

By: Richard Koehler

Richard Koehler — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 19:48:00 +0000

Already written about at length by Larry Niven in the short essay “Exercise in Speculation: The Theory and Practice of Teleportation” in the short story collection All the Myriad ways. He starts with water and moves to metal filaments. he also discusses what happens when the water starts increasing in speed because it is falling an essentially infinite distance.

By: Random

Random — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 20:04:00 +0000

Even with a tube, it wouldn't work for long with a wateer wheel. Eventually, the flow of water would get moved out of reach of the wheel. It might work better with a turbine whose axe is the same as the tube. This way, wherever the water fall, it still fall on the turbine.

By: Portalormexicans

Portalormexicans — Sat, 28 Aug 2010 15:25:00 +0000

The tube idea needs to be implemented. In order to solve the water evaporating, use something that doesn't evaporate. Sand? Rocks? Candycanes? And make sure that the wheel slows the rocks/sand/candycanes/what-have-you enough everytime so the variable that falls through the portal so that it does not gain enough velocity to do damage to the wheel. This would create infinite energy, until the wheel wore away from wear and tear (this would happen eventually from water as well, look at rivers and the ocean for example).

Suck it bitches. Portal = infinite energy if friction wasn't a factor. Otherwise this is an impossible idea.

Or hire mexicans to turn the wheel…..basically an endless source of energy right there.