• GreenKnight23@lemmy.world
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      there was an episode where they created a dynamo generator and batteries.

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      that took them something like six months with many people helping.

      unfortunately dynamos(like above) and batteries work on DC current. that time machine works on AC.

      so you would need to do two things.

      1. create a mechanical DC>AC inverter that preferably is powered from the physical input of the dynamo
      2. create batteries in both series and parallel to ensure a 120v voltage is maintained at the required amperage.

      also consider that north American standards require electricity to run at 60hz. this means the AC signal flips the DC signal 60 times per second. creating a mechanical inverter would need to take into account the size of the circle for a complete rotation in 1 second as well as the speed at which the dynamo must spin in order to get 60 alterations per second. the rough formula would look something like: frequency = speed/(diameter*3.14). speed can be variable depending on the size of the copper wheel used as well.

      to sum everything up, for just the two people there, it’s probably going to take them too long and they’ll die from exposure or predators.

      get excited

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          “Will it change the path of an asteroid?”

          “Well, probably not.”

          Chomp

          • 🍉 DrRedOctopus 🐙🍉@lemmy.world
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            maybe?

            After learning of new technology and a warning, they developed a space program.

            The present is no longer a primate civilizations fighting each other and destroying the planet, instead a saurian civilisation has spread through the galaxy.

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              That’s not how the butterfly effect works. Also no shot these 2 dunderhead could make that work.

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      Assuming Dr. Stone is some kind of MacGyver regen:

      Two obvious approaches to me that I’ll run through in high level: build a wind/watermill generators or potato/lemon batteries

      First thing you’ll need to figure out for both is how to make some wire. That’s going to require finding some metal ore and a hot furnace, and creating a few tools out of stone to work with it.

      The biggest difficulty with the former two is going to be finding some ferrous metal to turn into magnets. You can make a magnet without electricity by smashing the shit out of some iron as it’s aligned with the earth’s magnetic field, and it’ll become a weak magnet. From there with enough wire, you can build a generator. With the sails of the mill, you can build that out of wood and foliage.

      For potato or lemon batteries, you’re going to need a shitload, as they give you about a volt and a pretty tiny current, but theoretically you could figure something out that way with enough. I imagine some things may want to eat your batteries though

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        how to make some wire. […] finding some ferrous metal to turn into magnets.

        These two ingredients put our 120v dynamo really far up the tech tree from “make fire.” Our intrepid time travelers are going to spend years trying to not be velocaraptor food and foraging for a meal themselves, all while making stupendous amounts of charcoal and prospecting for ore.

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          Oh don’t get me wrong, our intrepid adventurers are going to have to spend a good chunk of time on this with no guarantee they live long enough.

          However assuming knowledge isn’t a gap (given they already built a time machine), iron ore is fairly abundant in many areas of the world, and it’s relatively straightforward to build a kiln that would reach the appropriate temperatures to smelt the iron into bloom (that can be hammered into workable iron)

          It’ll take many, many years, but assuming they can avoid ending up as food, it doesn’t seem impossible

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        Your lemon batteries will be DC tho. I think step one would be to start carefully dismantling the Time Machine to see what it really needs and what parts might be unneeded and reusable in a generator.

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      That’s going to depend entirely on how good you are at finding and smelting copper with only Stone Age technologies.

      • 🍉 DrRedOctopus 🐙🍉@lemmy.world
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        my favourite trope in media, The season long enemy becomes a close ally at the end. And the hero just accumulates friends as if they were Pokémon.

        MLP, Dr Stone, Dragon Ball.

        need more of that.