The philosophy question of "Is a hot spring a geothermal power plant?" is actually kind of interesting, I would say yes. Here's my logic: we call them nuclear power plants even though the nuclear part is just used to generate heat, and then that heat is used through "conventional" means to actually produce power for the grid. But we got back to the original cause for the name. So even though you could say that heating up humans so they're more energy efficient and work harder (and need to use less electricity on heating, thus producing power via opportunity savings) produces power via humans, I think the hot spring is the equivalent of a nuclear reactor in this analogy, being the mechanism driving the power-producing step rather than the final step itself.
I'd say the definition of 'power' and also 'plant' is important here. Is a spring a plant? And is releasing heat from deep inside the earth 'power' ? We do call a solar cell field a solar power plant so maybe it's enough if we somehow catch energy coming from somewhere (the sun in that case) a 'plant', so a building on top of a hot spring designed to harness the energy of hot water could be called a 'plant' even if it was in fact used as a bathhouse and not to provide electricity. Power is more complicated I think.
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Just stumbled upon this. As someone who watched Planetary Annihilation back in the day, it's very interesting to see how similar these games are. Very fun to watch :)
"does a hotspring count as a geothermal powerplant?" if you put in further work to develop it and you use it for getting some form of work done then kinda, yeah. your iconic hotspring bathouse doesn't really qualify because that is pretty much always a luxury item no mater what development level the culture is at but something like a public bathhouse arguably _would_ and using it for things like laundry or cooking or whatnot definitely would. ^short version of whether it counts is whether or not you are using the energy from the hotspring to do *work* you don't need to drill a volcanic shaft (ideally with water supply) -> use heat to generate steam -> to generate kinetic -> to generate elecrtic -> to pass it to a large-scale power grid -> aaand then convert it right back into heat for the most part.
Tsunamis and Dam Busters (cortex version) are described to serve to destroy flagships, single targets and other heavy things because they drop bombs on a single spot
@12:00 a hot springs is indebatably a geothermal power plant vs a chemical/biological power plant. The heated waters are literally from geothermal/volcanic activity.
4:58 it's weird that you praise Angry Strawberry's expansion when Blodir in the opposite position has literally 3X the economy, and it's not worth a mention
Sometimes it's just about where I'm looking with the camera. For this case and any other it's safe to assume if I praise someone for something and someone else does it 3x as much they get about 3x the unspoken praise XD
21:54 The micro on that fiend was perfect.I didn't know it was possible to dodge d gun that close,it looked like neo dodging bullets. 🙂
gg. I knew you where gonna enjoy this one brights ;)
These super high os lobbies have been so much fun.
19:46 ive been telling ppl that a big wad of gunboats can be insufferably difficult to stop once theyre behind the enemy's navy
The philosophy question of "Is a hot spring a geothermal power plant?" is actually kind of interesting, I would say yes. Here's my logic: we call them nuclear power plants even though the nuclear part is just used to generate heat, and then that heat is used through "conventional" means to actually produce power for the grid. But we got back to the original cause for the name. So even though you could say that heating up humans so they're more energy efficient and work harder (and need to use less electricity on heating, thus producing power via opportunity savings) produces power via humans, I think the hot spring is the equivalent of a nuclear reactor in this analogy, being the mechanism driving the power-producing step rather than the final step itself.
I'd say the definition of 'power' and also 'plant' is important here.
Is a spring a plant? And is releasing heat from deep inside the earth 'power' ? We do call a solar cell field a solar power plant so maybe it's enough if we somehow catch energy coming from somewhere (the sun in that case) a 'plant', so a building on top of a hot spring designed to harness the energy of hot water could be called a 'plant' even if it was in fact used as a bathhouse and not to provide electricity.
Power is more complicated I think.
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You have to cast with David Skinner! You are the play by play, and he’s the skills-based commentator; It’s the same model Pat Summeral and John Madden used so successfully! Please pursue an exploratory brainstorm of this! I would pay a subscription for this!
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Just stumbled upon this. As someone who watched Planetary Annihilation back in the day, it's very interesting to see how similar these games are. Very fun to watch :)
Geothermal hot springs - recharging the batteries of humans since 48 BCE!
Blodir vs xfactor always makes for a good watch
15:09 MR PRESIDENT GET DOWN!
"does a hotspring count as a geothermal powerplant?"
if you put in further work to develop it and you use it for getting some form of work done then kinda, yeah. your iconic hotspring bathouse doesn't really qualify because that is pretty much always a luxury item no mater what development level the culture is at but something like a public bathhouse arguably _would_ and using it for things like laundry or cooking or whatnot definitely would.
^short version of whether it counts is whether or not you are using the energy from the hotspring to do *work* you don't need to drill a volcanic shaft (ideally with water supply) -> use heat to generate steam -> to generate kinetic -> to generate elecrtic -> to pass it to a large-scale power grid -> aaand then convert it right back into heat for the most part.
Tsunamis and Dam Busters (cortex version) are described to serve to destroy flagships, single targets and other heavy things because they drop bombs on a single spot
@12:00 a hot springs is indebatably a geothermal power plant vs a chemical/biological power plant. The heated waters are literally from geothermal/volcanic activity.
4:58 it's weird that you praise Angry Strawberry's expansion when Blodir in the opposite position has literally 3X the economy, and it's not worth a mention
Sometimes it's just about where I'm looking with the camera. For this case and any other it's safe to assume if I praise someone for something and someone else does it 3x as much they get about 3x the unspoken praise XD
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2:10 A high level communism in it's simplest, hell yes! All that's needed is to obtain individuals who think alike for it to work.
Rock and stone!