Forgive my ignorance. I was in a town where a Newcomen pump was installed, but we couldn't use it because we had no rubber. We did have diesel engines and I wanted to use them instead of the Newcomen. Can the Newcomen be disassembled? Also, how do you know when the Newcomen is out of uses?
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I understand the newcomen pump. But, what do the newcomen hammer, newcomen roller, necomen bore, and newcomen lathe do?
Would give the multi-purpose engine a function after completing a diesel engine besides making war swords. Allows faster creation for logs into boards.
The addition of the next level of metal working, ceramics, and adding glass. The Newcomen bellows would be a double piston bellows. Allowing one to melt down glass, and some ores into better metals, or from more varied resources. Adding a way to construct a smeltery in order to refine a new but previously inaccessible iron source seems like a decent way to fix the iron load of reaching industrialisation
Not sure if this is part of the game yet, if not I think it should be. The kerosene wick burner should be used to upgrade the newcomen multipurpose engine, the oil rig, and the fractional distiller. That way you could run all machines using kerosene and save coal for smelting, or just give the players the ability to juggle kerosene and coal supplies by making it possible to remove the kerosene wick burner if needed
Right now the wick burner is pretty much useless as the only use is in a newcomen pump which isn't a good investment.
If you allow newcomen engines to run on diesel that opens the door to more use of the higher tech equipment, and it would be a great quality of life change for developed cities.
I am researching the Watt steam engines and one of the things that I discovered was that Watt had a lot of difficulty initially in getting the precision required for his cylinder and piston to match. Newcomen engines are 50 years older and they used pistons, so why didn't they have any trouble?
I think I remember something reading something while ago that said the Newcomen engine was first developed and adopted in areas that had cheap and easy access to coal. Am I remembering this correctly?
I don't want to step on anybody's toes here, but the amount of non-dad jokes here in this subreddit really annoys me. First of all, dad jokes CAN be NSFW, it clearly says so in the sub rules. Secondly, it doesn't automatically make it a dad joke if it's from a conversation between you and your child. Most importantly, the jokes that your CHILDREN tell YOU are not dad jokes. The point of a dad joke is that it's so cheesy only a dad who's trying to be funny would make such a joke. That's it. They are stupid plays on words, lame puns and so on. There has to be a clever pun or wordplay for it to be considered a dad joke.
Again, to all the fellow dads, I apologise if I'm sounding too harsh. But I just needed to get it off my chest.
IOTA - why I think they have crossed the chasm, we will see a PAMP with the coming announcement, and proof they have reinvented themselves!
TLDR: There is a pump coming. IOTA and the IOTA Foundation is not the same that it was before mid-2020. We are seeing a totally new token, a new Foundation, most importantly a new team!
Here are my thoughts on why we will see a huge Pump and potentially nice consistent gains over the next month with IOTA.
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It has been confirmed that there will be a big announcement in the next 24 hours. As well, that the IF has been working on this for the past 18 months. This was stated by Dominik Shiener, one of the founders of IOTA and on the Board of Directors.
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Why will this announcement be different from the βQβ announcement from years ago? Primarily I believe that the IOTA Foundation has evolved (in a positive way) from the early days. They were known for hype without any results. They talked-the-talked but never walked the walk. The βQβ announcement was a dud and really hurt the IFβs image and reputation, especially to investors and traders. The fact was that βQβ was a great idea, but it was built on Ternary and required Ternary hardware. Will we one day see Ternary IoT Hardware chips? Maybe, probably in 10 to 20 years, though possibly never. Building βQβ was a disaster but was pushed by two particular IOTA Founders at that time. Since the IF let go of those two founders that held so strongly to Ternary development in denial that it is destined to fail, Dominik Shiener and the IOTA Foundation as a whole, has completely rebuilt the Tangle from the ground up. They didnβt just rebuild and reinvent the Tangle with Chrysallis on a technical basis, but they also rebuild the IOTA Foundation as a whole. They reinvented how they conduct marketing, announcements, and interact with the community. Saying all that, Dominik himself confirmed today that this announcement within the next 24 hours will not be anything like βQβ. On top of that, he reaffirmed that the IOTA Foundation is nothing like it was in 2018 such as with the βQβ days. I do believe they have learned from their past, let go of some of the dead weight, reinvented themselves, yet they still hold true to the vision of building a feeless, secure, and decentralized network (trilemma solved!), but a network that not only supports the growing IoT Machine economy, but also a network that takes DLTs to the next level with Web/Crypto 3.0. This announcement has been
Do your worst!
They were cooked in Greece.
I'm surprised it hasn't decade.
Don't you know a good pun is its own reword?
Two muffins are in an oven, one muffin looks at the other and says "is it just me, or is it hot in here?"
Then the other muffin says "AHH, TALKING MUFFIN!!!"
For context I'm a Refuse Driver (Garbage man) & today I was on food waste. After I'd tipped I was checking the wagon for any defects when I spotted a lone pea balanced on the lifts.
I said "hey look, an escaPEA"
No one near me but it didn't half make me laugh for a good hour or so!
Edit: I can't believe how much this has blown up. Thank you everyone I've had a blast reading through the replies π
