Yesterday evening I had thought about a new way to make power.
The Smoke Wheel
It works when you put a Fire under it so the smoke makes the wheel turn around
I don`t know if it is possible but it would be a great addition.
(Sorry for eventually bad english, i`m german)
Moved to the suggestions sub-forum.
/Urian
(edit:^^sorry)
Suggestion: Smoke Wheel?
Suggestion: Smoke Wheel?
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- James_Past
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Re: Suggestion: Smoke Wheel?
This could also be implemented by placing a wind mill on a vertical axle and placing several fires underneath it, but the point of having a water wheel is to be able to create power underground and having this would eliminate it's usefulness.
Re: Suggestion: Smoke Wheel?
You're basically talking about a turbine. It's not powered by smoke, so much as the rising of hot air. And I think a steam turbine would be more efficient than one powered by hot air. Steam turbines are what almost all of the modern day power plants use - the variety is in how you heat the water to steam. Nuclear, coal, concentrated solar power, geothermal - they all generate heat that turns water into steam, which rises through turbines to generate power. In a closed system, you'd then run the steam through condensers, to go back into the liquid supply.
- David367th
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Re: Suggestion: Smoke Wheel?
Or a steam generator power thingy
Like use a steam engine to power axels, would need coal of sorts (so making it pretty bad compared to Water Mills or Wind Mills which use renewable energy)
Like use a steam engine to power axels, would need coal of sorts (so making it pretty bad compared to Water Mills or Wind Mills which use renewable energy)
Re: Suggestion: Smoke Wheel?
I should think of just putting a burning netherrack under a water source and the steam turbine above it
- Conscript Gary
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Re: Suggestion: Smoke Wheel?
That would kinda break the logic behind the nethercoal though, that being that netherrack doesn't burn hot.