Posted by Lieutenant Si’Rek (Chief Engineer) in Main Sim - A Breath of Fresh Air (Tag Engineering)

Posted by Gamemaster Janus (Gamemaster) in Main Sim - A Breath of Fresh Air (Tag Engineering)

Posted by Lieutenant Si’Rek (Chief Engineer) in Main Sim - A Breath of Fresh Air (Tag Engineering)
OOC: This takes place the day after the struts were repaired.

Si’Rek’s original plan had been to cut holes in the hull to allow for ventilation. Having gone over the plans more closely, he had an additional idea. =/\= Si’Rek to all Engineering staff. Mandatory meeting in ten minutes in Engineering. Get ready to crawl around. =/\=

Once everyone available had arrived, Si’Rek stood in front of the team. “Listen up. As you all are aware, power is precious commodity right now. So we have to do everything we can to conserve power. Mr. Finnegan and I discussed the possibility of bringing in fresh air so that Life Support could be taken off line to conserve power. As I gave that idea more thought, I think it would behoove us to make that our next priority. As we have breaches fore and aft, we are going to use those as intakes to bring air in. Once it’s in, it becomes a matter of moving it through the ship. For that I have an idea, but as it will be an absolutely difficult task, I want your input.” and he looked around to make sure everyone was paying attention.

“My plan now is this: We build a series of wind turbines on the top of the ship to generate power and mechanically operate bellows that will blow air through the ship. We have a huge amount of timber from where we stabilized the ship, so the only parts that would have to be made of artificial materials are the gearing, transmission system, and the down rods. We would be addressing two problems simultaneously, and that saves us time and adds to our power pool to draw from. From my estimates, four turbines with an average 26 rpms converted to 1400 to 1800 rpms at the generator shaft will give us around 700 kilowatts of power per hour. Times that by four and we can charge up power cells relatively quickly and run the computers. The hard part will be running another transfer shaft from the generator shaft to a transfer case to open and close the bellows situated throughout the ship to move the air. Now, we have another option. Use some of the power we generate to simply keep the ventilation system on line. Far less complicated, but it cuts into our net gain of energy. Thoughts?”

Si’Rek, CE

“I don’t know Chief… the life support systems have been able to keep the ship cool during the day as it gets pretty warm outside. I’m not exactly sure how much heat we’re expelling from the remaining fusion reactor since no one has had the free time to perform any measurements on that and whether if we turn off life support, we’d be able to keep the environment within the ship reasonably comfortable. Not to mention, we’ve only been here for 6 days, and the weather has been fortunately clear so far but that could change,” said Fixit.

GM

Si’Rek smiled and said “Excellent point, Fixit. And thank you for speaking up. So… lets get those readings done first and foremost.” and the words caught his attention. “Wait… that may be feasible.” he muttered to himself. “Fixit - go take thermal readings of the reactor exhaust. Maybe we can work up Mr. Finn’s steam turbine idea off the heat from the reactor. That would at least solve the problem of a heat source.”

Si’Rek, CE

OOC: Uh… most power generation uses steam turbines anyway. So… for the sake of thermal dynamics, assuming that the fusion generator is operating less than optimal capacity…

IC:

Fixit came back with the readings. “37.8 Celsius, sir. Not hot enough to be used,” replied Fixit.

GM