Zpm

[IcyNeko]

I HAVE BEEN DEFEATED! THanks! ;D

[ek_elder_common]

in order to determine if a zpm is rechargeable you must first know how one is made...how to they put that "sub-space foam" in the little crystal thingy in the first place? answer the simple questions bout the zpms first...then try to see if they can be recharged (alkaline batts cant be recharged but nickel metal hydrate batteries can...we know why they can cause we made them to do so...but how did the ancients make the zpms? like alkaline or nickel metal hydrate?)

[IcyNeko]

McKAY: And they may have, but extracting zero point energy from our own universe is ... well, it's, uh, definitely trickier.
WEIR: Explain trickier.
ZELENKA: Well, because we actually have to live in our own universe, it presents a whole range of problems.

That sounds like once we deplete zero point energy from a certain region of space, we end up causing damage to that portion.

If such is so.... then it's more alkaline. You can't add more universe back into the universe. Especially with the Atlantis stardrive.

[Daryl Froggy]

That sounds like once we deplete zero point energy from a certain region of space, we end up causing damage to that portion.

If such is so.... then it's more alkaline. You can't add more universe back into the universe. Especially with the Atlantis stardrive.

no you can't add more universe to the universe but you could return that piece of universe to the universe and get another chunk.

[soundman]

ZPM might be like car battery as you have the engine ruing the battery gets garaged up but if you don’t move the battery will just gets depleted

even if it were, even car batteries eventually run out of power... you can't just keep recharging them... besides, the ancients wouldn't need to recharge them because they had the ability to make more; you wouldn't need to recharge your car battery if you could just produce another at will

[Syera]

So, what do they do with the dead ones? Leave them on the mantle for decoration?

[IcyNeko]

Give them to Baal. He likes having expended Ancient Artifacts...

[Harekin]

So, what do they do with the dead ones? Leave them on the mantle for decoration?

Possibly reuse the materials used in their construction? Possibly make a new ZPM from an old one? Be like using the metal in a dead battery(imagine it is extremely rare metal, thus worth recycling) and simply putting new chemicals in it. Im by no means saying recharge it! A better analogy would be recycling beer cans. You melt down the metal for reuse even after what is inside has been consumed.

[wezel19]

Okay now the team has a functioning ZPM, and they have full access to database surely the simplest solution would be to make new ZPMS, Im assuming of cousre that Altanits has the capicity to produce more ZPMS. In my mind its not a question have the ablity as because even if you don't full understand how a process works you can followi instructions.

In regards to car battries, they are used to started the engine then petrol or another fuel is used to move the car. The battriey is charge because energy is produced when the car wheels turn and this is returned to the battery. The same process is same used to power a dynimo on a bike.

[IcyNeko]

Okay now the team has a functioning ZPM, and they have full access to database surely the simplest solution would be to make new ZPMS, Im assuming of cousre that Altanits has the capicity to produce more ZPMS. In my mind its not a question have the ablity as because even if you don't full understand how a process works you can followi instructions.

If it were that easy, China's products wouldn't suck turds. They take products and reverse engineer it, yet still manage to get it all wrong. Besides, if they found the "how to make a ZPM manual", it's still a translated manual - ever try building something that was written in another language and translated? And then there's the problem of getting the materials required to build it.. and then making it on the level where it can be turned into ZPMs... all of that takes time. More time if you don't know what you're doing.

It totally IS an issue of ability. I could give a caveman schematics on how to make a desktop PC (down to the circuit boards), and it would take the caveman a lifetime to figure out the most basic components.

Try again when you actually think things through.

In regards to car battries, they are used to started the engine then petrol or another fuel is used to move the car. The battriey is charge because energy is produced when the car wheels turn and this is returned to the battery. The same process is same used to power a dynimo on a bike.

A Car battery is designed to be recharged. There are chemicals inside the battery. A ZPM draws energy from an artificial region of subspace. You can't recharge that region once you deplete it. Read other people's posts. We've been discussing for a while.

[soundman]

Mckay and the team has learned to successfully use Ancient technology before; why couldn't they find and then research and learn to use the ZPM producing tehnology?

[Harekin]

Because having a theory on how it works and actually building one are two COMPLETLY different things. If someone gave you instructions for the International Space Station would you be able to build it?

[IcyNeko]

Before you post any more Blahblahblahblah yaddayadda bullcrap, Soundman, take Harekin's example. Build a fully functional space station, from the most basic components. You can have a "research team" as well, comprised of kids in Junior High. THat is about the Atlantis team has, and the appropriate comparison to how they'd be able to reproduce Ancient tech.