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Great chapter Pen.
Milsy is proving to everyone
Milsy is proving to everyone that she indeed has a brain and really knows how to use it. She is observate and uses what she observers to not only bring into focus things she knows, but things that she does not know yet; and how to apply them to each other. Very much like her baking a very large cake comments.
Would not surprise me in the least to find Milsy one day becoming the head of the Guilds and their new University when it is built.
So Garia told them about
So Garia told them about going barrels, cool, speaking of which, I think Tarvan is under estimating how quickly they will take to using springs, seeing how the clock makers were immediately thought of for the springs in the flint lock mechanisms... Heat reclamation will be important, unfortunately none of them know quite enough about thermodynamics to make a Stirling engine (the heat sink/exchanger being the issue) but they could pipe water over the furnace to feed the steam engine with, if it was a turbine they could reboil condensation with it
Allways a Delight
Penny, thanks for the new Milsy's adventures posting.
Come to think of it/ Wikipedia was used
If they just duct the waste gas (co2) back to the air intake of the blast furnace will convert back into carbon monoxide with the coke, which convert to co2 with the iron oxide, add to that the hot smoke from the steam engine or even sending some of the waste gas to the firebox of the steam engine (powered by coke) were it is first oxygenated (don't want to snuff out the fire) and the hot smoke rejoins the system, also going to the measuring room and the pig iron to steel converters, and finally to a couple sets of water heaters, one for preheating to feed into the boiler of the steam engine, the other for heating water for consumption (pel) these ones will not make use of additional fuel, as they dont need as much heat, also the co2 has to exit the system at some point.
Fortunately as an experimental system, they know that unforseen happenings like the pipes cracking from thermal expansion may happen, and can plan for having to remove them, also they could oxygenate the air as needed with air around cooling metal. Seeing how it will reduce total fuel consumption, it has the added benefit of reducing CO2 emissions (all carbon from the system comes from fuel, after all)
It sounds like
Hurdin and Parrel are eager to get more workers of either gender. Milsy was smart in refering to Bursila as a chaperone, gives the guilds the prospect of introducing 2 or more females at a time until society starts to accept the idea of women leading independent lives.
I do wonder if they are going to salvage what they can from the failed furnace, I wouldn't use the bricks for another high temperature industrial furnace, but domestic furnaces and ovens the ones with no visible cracks should be fine
Of course the advantage of a drive shaft is where the loads and power supply are in the same area, and don't have to move around much, with their current use of electricity they are losing quite a bit of energy in charging the batteries.
Bay Furnace
I visited the ruins of an old blast furnace in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, on the shore of Lake Superior.
After reading this story, I decided to upload some selected photos to my Deviantart account. That way, everyone can get somewhat of an idea of what the blast furnace looked like.
The first one is at: http://ray-d.deviantart.com/art/Bay-Furnace-01-646521107
Or, go to my gallery http://ray-d.deviantart.com and start at the first picture and move on from there.
Thanks, Ray
My experience of such places is all UK-based but the plaques and such describe exactly what is going on here.
Sometimes it is difficult to write about a character when they know more than you do!
Penny
Dogs have owners; cats have staff. Grand-daughters have minions.
More blast furnaces...
This time, from the birthplace of the UK's Industrial Revolution in Coalbrookdale (aka Ironbridge, where the world's first bridge made of iron was built...)
http://www.ironbridge.org.uk/collections/our-collections/mon...
http://www.ironbridge.org.uk/collections/our-collections/mon...
As the right side of the brain controls the left side of the body, then only left-handers are in their right mind!
Continue to love the story
But it should be pretty much considered a non-trans story which is fine. Garia is only very tangental of course. Too bad there is no way to support transgendered social changes here or address their reality. No offense on how Julia handled it in her story.
Appropriately marked
You're right, nothing remotely trans has appeared, at least so far, in this story. It is marked as non-transgender at the top, though, so you can't say you haven't been fairly warned.
It occurred to me while writing SEE that Milsy's story could be interesting in itself, especially as letters go from her and Tarvan to Garia at Blackstone. That is why I am doing it, to fill in the gap before Garia and Keren return to the palace.
It could be seen in an alternative light, that of a young female attempting to bring a certain level of equality to Palarandi society. Garia is special, in oh so many ways, but Milsy begins life as a kitchen servant. Her struggle is equally as important to the final result as what happens in the main thread.
I do appreciate that people come to BC to read trans stories and I have no problem with that. But just as we occasionally get Whateley stories without TG themes in them here I felt that writing Milsy's story would allow me to enlarge a world that SEE has barely scratched the surface of, and that many readers are interested in.
Don't worry; TG themes will reappear in the next Anmar story I will write, although they won't be the main focus.
Penny
Dogs have owners; cats have staff. Grand-daughters have minions.
Stories such as this
Non TG stories have previously been explicitly endorsed by Erin. I myself have a non-TG lesbian story on the back burner, and Erin has said it's fine with her.
I'm reminded of somebody's comment that once surgery happens a story ceases to be a TG story.
Personally I'll take any story from the Anmar universe that people care to write. Penny, I will happily take any story you choose to write and submit.
“When a clown moves into a palace, he doesn’t become a king. The palace becomes a circus.” - Turkish Proverb
That's right the next story
That's right the next story will feature a certain Jothan Tenent, whom i am certain will not only encourage thermometers in the kitchen but make inquiries about the prospect of introducing a gas cook top, coke and charcoal cigars are one thing but only Induction is as controllable as gas.
Like I said, not complaining
It touches my life in a sense since I pass as cis and face the same potential prejudices in the engineering world.
Still, maybe a guild member turns out to be trans .... and Garia brought back GRS videos.
Well we know about Venket, in
Well we know about Venket, in JoB, but I don't think specific surgical videos would be overall beneficial, because of distribution problems, and the fact that Garia has to bring as much distributable information as possible, so video will have to be limited to the essentials, and a lot is described in the books she brought back
Hmm
seeing what others have said, the exhaust gas may be enough to power a steam engine, and of course Garia seems to have told them about the Bessemer process, and at this stage they can be picky about their feed-stock because they are just starting, so the 3rd furnace will just need to be initially loaded and fired and provided a constant feed of iron, coke and limestone, the mechanical demands for the feed and the air, will be powered by the furnace itself, thus greatly reducing the fuel costs..
The indirect heating from the
The indirect heating from the Coke ovens may clue Milsy into a solution to the waste heat problem,
I wonder
I remember mention of Fulvin having the idea to use rotary movement from a steam engine to power a press for stamping out knife blanks, how long will it be before someone has the idea to make the quintessential compact multi-tool? A small knife for widling spikes or tweezers with and cutting cloth for bandages of course, a fork, a can opener (eventually) and a flint would be good for most, possibly a small knife sharpener, wouldn't replace the riding/ tactical knives, but it doesn't need to.
See it, try to improve it
Milsy is going far, likely further than Garia, as Milsy sees what's being done and gains ideas how it can be improved.
Milsy is one of those people who could watch a zipper being made and come up with a design for the machines which do all the work.
Or at the blast furnaces, as she's doing by figuring a way to feed the furnace without having to shut them down each time to feed them.
Garia and Milsy are Ying and Yang, knowledge and improvement. Between the two they will spawn changes that will rush Palarand forward.
Others have feelings too.