Mechanical energy into electrical energy
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blackfox1010
A magnetic coil that can convert mechanical energy into electrical energy would be cool. This means you can continue to use old wind and water wheels to generate energy. Above all, hydropower is missing from the electrical energy that is possible from the mechanical energy with water wheels.
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Dennis Scholz
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Dennis Scholz
Merged in a post:
Inefficient mechanical power into small electric power - think house lighting
Psyduck
Hi - Suggestion a Simple Coil Generator
tldr: Multiple Waterwheels or Windmills to power paper lanterns - wooden lights - and other basic lights used in housing
When you have a windmill or waterwheel you have a nice small amount of mechanical power. What we should do then is as a basic engineer be able to craft a converter that will take that power and output a small amount of electric energy.
Most lights that run in Eco are on a real light average of 60w - that makes sense but I think we may be considering real-life numbers a bit too heavily. Waterwheels and Windmills generate around 60w of mechanical power at maximum efficiency each. It would be amazing to see if us being able to use this something of a ratio of 2 to 3 windmills or waterwheels through this basic engineering item "Simple Coil Generator".
This would produce enough power to turn on three to four lights but nowhere near enough to overshadow a combustion generator needed for a computer lab or an electronics table. But a way for us to better utilize how many good-looking lights there are in the game at a much easier cost on the environment.
We can even use the part system to degrade the coil using copper wire at an approachable rate.