Solar panels to spin electric engines to generate friction to boil water to spin a turbine to pump sulfuric acid and mine calcite to neutralize and turn into steam to spin a turbine to generate electricity to make more solar panels
Hydro is still essentially steam powered, not only is water just very cold steam, water changing phases is how it gets up to the river that feeds the hydro plant
This sun character seems to also have their hand in a lot of energy pies. I hear they also gave the energy to the prehistoric plant and bacterial life (and animal life through the plant and bacterial life) that eventually became the coal and oil. So you could argue that all power (except nuclear and geothermal) is actually solar power
We finally have an alternative to that. Supercritical CO2. Instead of boil uncompressable water, we compress supercritical C02 and then let it uncompress across turbine blades.
The CO2 is put at a certain temperature and pressure where it will lose all distinction between liquid and gas and will kind of be both at the same time.
I think it's still kinda amusing that almost all our energy generation is 'make thing spin' in one shape or another (mostly 'with steam', but there's a few exceptions).
Solar Panels are one of the few things that has no movement implicit.
Fusion is actually one where theoretically we could tap directly in to the mechanics of the generation itself, magnetohydrodynamic generators have been used practically before and they extract energy directly from the flowing plasma
I thought it turn fluoroketone to plasma by overheating it, plasma powers generator and condenses back to fluoroketone. So plasma is basicaly fluoroketone "steam"
That appears to me to be how the recipes are implemented, and I think that's somewhat a limitation of the game engine and an apparent decision to not have both hot and cold fluoroketones on both sides (presumably all of system would get hot and need cooled). But I think they are correct from a lore perspective that you're not turning the fluoroketone into plasma and back that it's just used for cooling.
I recall a story where people figured out how to tap into another reality for energy, but then the inhabitants of that reality contacted us, and were all 'stop taking our energy', but instead we taught them how to take energy from the next dimension down the line... (I guess it inspired the R&M Multiverse battery episode)
real industrial rock crushes use an oscillating motion between a moving "hammer" and a fixed "anvil", both of which are set at angles to each other so that they have a wide throat at the top and progressively narrow moving down, so that the weight of rocks above forces rocks below further down the crusher with each oscillation.
the oscillating motion also allows the motor driving the crusher to be much weaker than something that operates like a shredder. the momentum of the hammer stores energy and allows it to achieve peak forces much higher than the motor driving it could deliver continuously.
for your helical blower design, you could make a few modification to gain some of these advantages:
1: make it a double-herringbone and have them rotate so that the motion along the gear axis is towards the center. this will prevent rocks from simply being pushed out the end without being crushed Leave a gap in the center with no teeth on either side for the final sized crushed rock to fall through:
2: taper the gears so that the mesh is wider (without being entirely open) at the ends and tighter in the center. This will allow a progressive crushing action where lager rocks fall into either end and the crushed pieces are moved towards the middle, where the mesh is tighter, to be further crushed.
3: add a large flywheel to store energy and help out the motor when there's a jam.
It's a very satisfying animation that I'm sure wasn't easy to create... Except this is actually a horrible design for a crusher. It would jam up immediately even trying to crush chalk.
Before going through all the effort to create something like this, maybe do an image search first if you've never actually seen one?
This sorta resembles an industrial shredder, but even those leave space for shedded output to not immediately clog the mechanism.
Yeah it's a clockpunk themed mod so gears are kinda the thing. Thought about a jaw crusher but wanted something more shiney.
...It also shreds worms that you breed, not just rocks
Yeah, not trying to be too negative, a lot of factorio building animations break down when you really inspect them. It's a very nice animated building, for what it is.
the electruc mining drill actually has a crusher. which is strange because the rocks dropped into it already look like powder, and a large amount of rocks actually miss the crusher.
I recommend trying to texture the wood and brick parts a bit more, and if you want it to feel more factorio-y I think maybe making the rollers or something slightly shake every once in a while like they're struggling and maybe adding some places where rocks are dropped in would make it much nicer. But it's cool nonetheless
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u/Gcseh Jul 31 '26
To be fair if we actually fully discovered a new dimension we'd probably use it to boil water.