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[Damocles 1]

so what are you running and what are you doing when you pretend to be piloting a battle mech?

sometimes when i'm using a backhoe at work i flap the outriggers on the ground and pretend its the side to side rock of a mech walking, hahaha

[Bluey]

Only a steiner would ask such a thing anyway

[Damocles 1]

only steiners seek meaningfull employment IRL

[Lt muffins]

Just engine and some body work (cars and the like)

You break it, I am the guy that has to fix it.

Edited by Lt muffins, 13 June 2012 - 08:02 PM.

[Valerin]

Well I'm not a Steiner but I run a motocross track and sometimes I look at my 821C Case Loader as a mech...lol

[Aym]

I do, K-loaders and aircraft pushback. Course when I'm pushing back an airbus I think I'm tanking it (WoW), and a K-loader would be a pitiful mech of any kind.

[Motorbreath]

I am in the nuclear engineering field, currently participating in research on magnetic confinement fusion. Sometimes I get the grand idea that I can design some sort of small modular reactor that could power such a behemoth as a battlemech. So i'll supply the power plant and you guys work up a chassis . Now we need a weapons guy....

[Nikoliy]

I drove an aircraft tractor. Got to tow a few C-5s, 747s, DC-10s and an AN-124. When driving it at full speed of 15 mph you feel like it could easily drive strait through a building.

[LordDeathStrike]

Motorbreath, on 13 June 2012 - 08:15 PM, said:

I am in the nuclear engineering field, currently participating in research on magnetic confinement fusion. Sometimes I get the grand idea that I can design some sort of small modular reactor that could power such a behemoth as a battlemech. So i'll supply the power plant and you guys work up a chassis . Now we need a weapons guy....

ive already theoretically figured out how to build gauss rifles ppcs and large bore gatling weapons as long as i have fusion to power them and funding to make them.

but im somewhat worried about magnetic confinement fusion, what happens not if but when the mag field fails. Murphies law demands that it fail at some point, is there a backup? cause once that confinement field stops confineing, thats alot of raw power to get let loose!

Edited by LordDeathStrike, 13 June 2012 - 08:39 PM.

[Dexterm]

Wow, a post asking if people work with heavy equipment and no ***** jokes. Either hell has frozen over or there are actual mature people in the world.

Edited by Dexterm, 13 June 2012 - 10:02 PM.

[Damocles 1]

Motorbreath, on 13 June 2012 - 08:15 PM, said:

I am in the nuclear engineering field, currently participating in research on magnetic confinement fusion. Sometimes I get the grand idea that I can design some sort of small modular reactor that could power such a behemoth as a battlemech. So i'll supply the power plant and you guys work up a chassis . Now we need a weapons guy....

An exciting prospect for sure, modern advances in robots and classic hydraulic systems are so promising, its no mech, but you can see it from here. problem is hyraulics are sloppy, unituative and unable to provide precision force effectivly unless used in complex teams. need that darn myomer to bring it all together

actually acording to wiki the first proper electroactive polymer came about back in 1925, so most of the peices are there, wheres my damn uzeil, scientists!?

Edited by Damocles 1, 13 June 2012 - 08:59 PM.

[Lt muffins]

Dexterm, on 13 June 2012 - 08:40 PM, said:

Wow, a post asking if people work with heavy equipment and no ***** jokes. Either hell has frozen over or there are actual mature people in the world.

do you want ***** jokes?

Edited by Lt muffins, 13 June 2012 - 09:08 PM.

[LordDeathStrike]

Damocles 1, on 13 June 2012 - 08:44 PM, said:

An exciting prospect for sure, modern advances in robots and classic hydraulic systems are so promising, its no mech, but you can see it from here. problem is hyraulics are sloppy, unituative and unable to provide precision force effectivly unless used in complex teams. need that darn myomer to bring it all together

actually acording to wiki the first proper electroactive polymer came about back in 1925, so most of the peices are there, wheres my damn uzeil, scientists!?

thats why we use myomer muscles in mechs and not hydrallics for motivation.

[Zukov]

Lol. Funny you mention it. I work in a resupply yard for offshore vessel company. Operate a Cat E heavy loader. Had a 20k lb driveshaft on it yesterday. About 24 ft long. Was thinking. " gotta get me some ammo for this A/C 20. Smiled whole rest of the day. Thanks

Edited by Zukov, 13 June 2012 - 09:15 PM.

[Motorbreath]

LordDeathStrike, on 13 June 2012 - 08:38 PM, said:

ive already theoretically figured out how to build gauss rifles ppcs and large bore gatling weapons as long as i have fusion to power them and funding to make them.

but im somewhat worried about magnetic confinement fusion, what happens not if but when the mag field fails. Murphies law demands that it fail at some point, is there a backup? cause once that confinement field stops confineing, thats alot of raw power to get let loose!

Well that is really one of the biggest problems with magnetic confinement fusion at the moment. Fusion requires a tremendous amount of heat to take place, so as the field fails plasma leakage occurs, which ultimately causes a drop in temperature and lowering (and eventual end) of the fusion rate. Although as it stands, the field has yet to even come up with practical ways of extracting the energy from magnetic confinement. In fact, we can't even get as much energy out as we put in to start/maintain the reaction.

I think that the most practical thing for a mech would be a small modular fission reactor, which is the same process as the commercial nuke plants, except scaled down and with varying fuels that can be used depending on design. I could see something like this occurring as the United States Navy designed its own type of nuclear reactor that was small/safe/powerful enough to power our modern Nuclear Fleet. Now to just improve on the submarine reactors and slap it inside a hulking mechanized death machine. I smell possible DoD contracts 15 years down the road . We need to get in on this early!

Damocles 1, on 13 June 2012 - 08:44 PM, said:

An exciting prospect for sure, modern advances in robots and classic hydraulic systems are so promising, its no mech, but you can see it from here. problem is hyraulics are sloppy, unituative and unable to provide precision force effectivly unless used in complex teams. need that darn myomer to bring it all together

actually acording to wiki the first proper electroactive polymer came about back in 1925, so most of the peices are there, wheres my damn uzeil, scientists!?

We need to start working on it ourselves. Resource war in the near future? House United States? Let's hand our troops some serious firepower. We need someone with a BIG garage.

[Damocles 1]

Zukov, on 13 June 2012 - 09:14 PM, said:

Lol. Funny you mention it. I work in a resupply yard for offshore vessel company. Operate a Cat E heavy loader. Had a 20k lb driveshaft on it yesterday. About 24 ft long. Was thinking. " gotta get me some ammo for this A/C 20. Smiled whole rest of the day. Thanks

hahaha thats awesome

[Big Iron]

I drove a lot of big farming machinery when I was younger during the summer. That was long before Mechwarrior though.

[Dugite]

Motorbreath, on 13 June 2012 - 08:15 PM, said:

I am in the nuclear engineering field, currently participating in research on magnetic confinement fusion. Sometimes I get the grand idea that I can design some sort of small modular reactor that could power such a behemoth as a battlemech. So i'll supply the power plant and you guys work up a chassis . Now we need a weapons guy....

funny you should mention it. Spent 12 years in the navy working with missile systems and long range sensors.

[Motorbreath]

Dugite, on 13 June 2012 - 10:06 PM, said:

funny you should mention it. Spent 12 years in the navy working with missile systems and long range sensors.

Perfect. Where there's a will, there's a way.

[Lord Potato]

Ok i may only be 15 but all this makes sence but with the whole reactor delemar i think our best bet is to make a low yield one first so say about 5 meters tall ect no weapons low nuke risk and we can just stuff around from there also lets get this it's own thread. And theres two Vital thing you guys have forgoten 1. is that you need a structural engerneir 2. you need some one to map this out on paper. I can help with the whole mapping it out on paper thing if you want.