Fire pole that converts gravitational potential energy into electricity
#Fire Pole Power
topaz beacon
cold glen
although that would be nice, and wouldn't really be hard to implement, since dupes aren't really on the fire poles as much ||and abusing it would be against the DSS||, it wouldn't really be worth it.
good idea though
torn matrix
How would that actually work?
A big cord they pull as they go down that turns a rotor?
Slide a big magnet down the pole to induce a current?
Convert friction to electricity using the seebeck effect?
If you converted all of the gravitational energy into electricity then you wouldn't really move at all? Or at least not accelerate
honest falcon
this would also need to make the dupes slower
topaz beacon
this would also need to make the dupes slower
It's just regenerative braking. It will not make dupes slower.
torn matrix
"braking" is making something slower. I think they meant the dupes would be slower on a generator fire pole than a normal fire pole. If you want to convert gravitational energy to electricity something has to slow down for the energy to be converted.
If you built something like this IRL the normal firepole would have just friction to decelerate you and once you're at terminal velocity that sounds like a very very bad braking system. Regenerative braking would slow you down way faster but that means you hit the bottom later.... But alive lol