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Waste systems
knnn:
--- Quote from: Quantus on October 19, 2015, 03:23:46 PM ---Very true, but I dont think it would take any more than the ventallation systems, or the meat cloning vats for that matter.
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Fair enough.
So the main problem that remains is pipes that you cannot reach (because they are stuck in indestructible walls) and blockages/filtering.
...what about the problem of collecting enough water for everyone? On earth, we pump water from miles around to bring to our cities. Here, if you only rely on water that actually falls on the spire, I don't think you'd have sufficient amounts. Basically, you need to have efficient means of extracting water from the air, or pump it in from outside and bring it two miles up.
Quantus:
--- Quote from: knnn on October 19, 2015, 03:33:55 PM ---Fair enough.
So the main problem that remains is pipes that you cannot reach (because they are stuck in indestructible walls) and blockages/filtering.
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For the volumes we are talking, they probably do it the same way we often do...they send a low-paid individual to crawl through them.
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...what about the problem of collecting enough water for everyone? On earth, we pump water from miles around to bring to our cities. Here, if you only rely on water that actually falls on the spire, I don't think you'd have sufficient amounts. Basically, you need to have efficient means of extracting water from the air, or pump it in from outside and bring it two miles up.
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Pumping it isnt too much of an issue if you assume that the Spire is itself a Power plant to some extent, supporting it's own systems. That height would take a pressure of around 4500 PSI to go the whole way in a single push, which isnt out of the question for steam powered systems. But more likely they'd only ever have to pump from one Habble's reservoir to the next one's up or down, which keeps it in far more manageable distances.
I agree that I dont expect that the outside of the Spire would see enough rainfall/condensation to supply all it's needs, though that would depend on things like humidity and atmospheric content, which The Mists cast a big ol' question mark across.
Aminar:
--- Quote from: Quantus on October 19, 2015, 03:49:58 PM ---For the volumes we are talking, they probably do it the same way we often do...they send a low-paid individual to crawl through them. Pumping it isnt too much of an issue if you assume that the Spire is itself a Power plant to some extent, supporting it's own systems. That height would take a pressure of around 4500 PSI to go the whole way in a single push, which isnt out of the question for steam powered systems. But more likely they'd only ever have to pump from one Habble's reservoir to the next one's up or down, which keeps it in far more manageable distances.
I agree that I dont expect that the outside of the Spire would see enough rainfall/condensation to supply all it's needs, though that would depend on things like humidity and atmospheric content, which The Mists cast a big ol' question mark across.
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With the obvious high humidity it isn't hard to believe that the ground is pretty water rich. So Spires having an Immortan Joe style pumping system wouldn't be out of the question. Hell, it might have been how the Builders deckded where to put the spires.
knnn:
--- Quote from: Quantus on October 19, 2015, 03:49:58 PM ---For the volumes we are talking, they probably do it the same way we often do...they send a low-paid individual to crawl through them.
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To bad you can't send a cat...
Quantus:
--- Quote from: knnn on October 19, 2015, 05:28:59 PM ---To bad you can't send a cat...
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Nah, that's Human work. Such things are far beneath the dignity of a cat. Obviously. ;)
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