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conulyEvery once in a while, I engage in a little thought experiment with myself.
I am the possessor of some remarkable technology, including time travel. I can bring a crack team of however many people I want to any point in time to influence history so that our current ecological nightmare doesn't happen. (We can also fix anything else we like, because there's no prime directive here.) We can, of course, bring with us seed banks and hard drives full of all our favorite media and whatever, and if we go really far back then some of us will stay in suspended animation to continue fixing the timeline for as long as necessary.
The only question is this: How much of known world history am I willing to sacrifice to make a better world today?
Every time I run this problem, I start with different dates - the 1920s? The 1800s? 1490? 2000 BCE? - before ultimately deciding - fuck it. The only way to ensure a bright future for humanity in my new, butterfly-timeline is to bring everything and everyone necessary for a modern infrastructure back to the early Neolithic era and utterly take over before our distant ancestors can do the same.
I'm not sure what this conclusion says about me.
I am the possessor of some remarkable technology, including time travel. I can bring a crack team of however many people I want to any point in time to influence history so that our current ecological nightmare doesn't happen. (We can also fix anything else we like, because there's no prime directive here.) We can, of course, bring with us seed banks and hard drives full of all our favorite media and whatever, and if we go really far back then some of us will stay in suspended animation to continue fixing the timeline for as long as necessary.
The only question is this: How much of known world history am I willing to sacrifice to make a better world today?
Every time I run this problem, I start with different dates - the 1920s? The 1800s? 1490? 2000 BCE? - before ultimately deciding - fuck it. The only way to ensure a bright future for humanity in my new, butterfly-timeline is to bring everything and everyone necessary for a modern infrastructure back to the early Neolithic era and utterly take over before our distant ancestors can do the same.
I'm not sure what this conclusion says about me.
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Date: 2018-11-29 09:41 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-11-29 11:38 pm (UTC)But you need different sizes and shapes depending on how "thick: the fuel is.
and any chunks of stuff in the fuel are apt to clog the nozzle.
The guy who invented new design was wanting to burn stuff like used motor oil to heat his workshop.
What he came up with was a sphere with a horizontal slit on one side (think of it as being part of the equator).
Fuel flows from a pipe above it and runs as a "film" across the surface of the sphere.
As it flows across the slit, air is blown out turning the fuel into a spray of air+fuel.
The spray burns just like any other burner jet.
The fuel that doesn't go over the slit goes into a catch basin just below the sphere and is pumped back up to the pipe where it gets another chance to flow over the sphere and get burned.
You just adjust the flow rate for the thickness of the fuel so you get an more or less constant film of fuel flowing over the sphere.
Can burn anything from alcohol to Bunker C. Well, it has to be warm enough for the Bunker C to flow (it turns into tarry gunk at something like 40 or 50 degrees F)