[6.27] Proof
on June 11, 2020
at 12:29 am
Time to convince the nonbeliever.
6.27 Transcript
Kiro: I’ve seen it. The cargo ship is wrecked. The bay is closed by a giant whirlpool. If things stay like this, the camp’s going to run out of provisions. It’s not like you two don’t depend on stolen supplies.
Daisy: We’ve got tons of food salted. Our goal is to become self-sufficient.
Kiro: What of everyone else at camp?
Daisy: You seriously think we can take responsibility for a hundred people?
A: I can’t see a ship from here…
Kiro: Why don’t we at least take a little trip and see for ourselves?
Daisy: Sure. I’ll accept that.
What about power? Will the computer room shut down? Are they connected to the power grid, or do they use generators?
That lake that they got out of the tunnel at looks like it could by a hydro dam but then it is one without regular maintenance. and other generators need fuel which they would get via ship which is now cut off :/
There is a hydroelectric station that supplies energy to the camp via a submerged cable. If you look closely at the header image you can see the penstocks (water pipes) on the other side of the bay. Incidentally we may learn more about it soon.
In a remote place like that they probably should have generators–at least for backup. . . .
They should technically have a lot of other things too.
So I just read till I was up to date in somewhere towards 6 hours or so and if my powers of recognition work then I seem to have found the comic some time in April this year (yay keeping tabs open) I really like the comic and will add it to my RSS feed.
I hope you are doing well and I look forward to the rest of the story.
@Lina Whatevs: I think a river flows into the bay near the prison. Their power may be hydroelectric.
In this kind of place I’d go for local hydro with a small dam or an anchor-it-in-a-stream generator (no idea what those are really called but I know they exist) also for backup, not sure whether you can get the latter in a large enough size for that many computers though.
A small power station in a small dam that runs continuosly may need no maintenance for years. I know diesel generators are often used for backup power, but where you have a dam? Just put one more turbine and generator on the same dam. One that isn’t running may seize up, so run both at half power or alternate between them, and you have the most reliable backup power there could be. They don’t stop all that often in the first place, there are only three things to go wrong: no water (ridiculously unlikely if the capacity of the dam is enough, taking ice in winter into account), the thing stops turning (if it sits still it will eventually seize, otherwise you’d have to wear out the bearings which normally would take decades or go in there and jam it – which can be fixed) or the power electronics stop working (I’m not as sure of their lifetime but I can guarantee it is not short and I don’t think they’d go out abruptly).
Anyways… if they lose power or connectivity, they have a bunch of badly game-addicted teens on their hands. Who need their fix. I think this will get ugly.
I’ve always wanted to have a homestead and build one of those things for electricity!
This being a former aluminum smelter however, which required a huge amount of energy, it is still powered by the very large 1000 megawatt hydro station built for that purpose (I shamelessly based this off the smelter in Kitimat, BC Canada which requires so much energy that engineers had to redirect an entire river through a mountain range).
The plant at camp has several generators, only one is running. But who knows how much longer it’ll keep going without maintenance…
Is there really exactly a hundred people back at the camp?
Will this be more like The Prisoner?
I was rereading the comic and I remember a couple of weeks ago there was a poll (?) to see how long people had been reading. I thought I had only been reading this comic for a couple of months, but reading the entire comic again, I realized I had been reading this for over a year. It’s an amazing comic and I hope it will continue on for at years to come. Or months. It depends on how you want to tell the story.
Cool stuff. I just read what you have posted, and I will be following the story now. How they are going to feed so many people, I don’t know. Although, technically, not everyone has to survive… *cough*Darien*cough*