I've been getting kind of frustrated by people who keep telling me that Z.P.M.'s can be re-charged by lightning. But this simply cannot be true! Lightning is a brief, but powerful electrical discharge created by the rubbing together of a positively charged and negatively charged clouds.
First of all, they would need a tremendous buffer. You would then need a viable method of taking what is basically static electricity and dividing it into a positive and negative charge. Then you'd require a storage medium, with a seperate section for both polar charges.
I didn't see a +/- on any Z.P.M.s- did you?
Then comes the problem of practical use. Atlantis is an entire city, one that requires a massive amount of energy! Electricity is a very basic, and ineffiecient form of energy. Even with the long term installation of the naquadah generators, the city is still running under par. How do you expect to use electricity to power it?
Besides, one of the big problems with electric is that you need constant generation, and what is often a very "dirty."
That brings me to the vacuums and Z.P.M.s. Imagine a ship out on space. If the ship loses pressure, it is then succeptable to the giant vacuum of space. That is a TREMENDOUS force! The Ancients have found a way to harness that tremendous force to power their technology.
A Z.P.M.'s basic hypothetical (because the science behind this is still in it's early stages) functions are as follows:
1. Create a contained bubble of sub-space; thus creating a vacuum
2. Harness the vacuum's power
3. Provide a conduit for this power to flow
*it is NOT electrical energy! you cannot plug a ZPM into your CD player!*
4. (see below)
Those are all of the functions that are undisputable, and if you DO try- you are wrong! They didn't go into it, so there are two likely possibilities for the 4/5th step(s)...
1. One part of the Z.P.M. stores energy that has been taken from the vacuum
or
2. The Z.P.M. takes energy only as needed
The most logical choice would have been to go with #2, I only fear that it might explode. We've seen Z.P.M.s tampered with before, and if electrical energy was introduced into a Z.P.M., the results could be catostrophic! Who knows what kind of crazy stuff would happen??
I hope that helped to clear things up, but I'll probably just get more questions.
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First of all, they would need a tremendous buffer. You would then need a viable method of taking what is basically static electricity and dividing it into a positive and negative charge. Then you'd require a storage medium, with a seperate section for both polar charges.
I didn't see a +/- on any Z.P.M.s- did you?
Then comes the problem of practical use. Atlantis is an entire city, one that requires a massive amount of energy! Electricity is a very basic, and ineffiecient form of energy. Even with the long term installation of the naquadah generators, the city is still running under par. How do you expect to use electricity to power it?
Besides, one of the big problems with electric is that you need constant generation, and what is often a very "dirty."
That brings me to the vacuums and Z.P.M.s. Imagine a ship out on space. If the ship loses pressure, it is then succeptable to the giant vacuum of space. That is a TREMENDOUS force! The Ancients have found a way to harness that tremendous force to power their technology.
A Z.P.M.'s basic hypothetical (because the science behind this is still in it's early stages) functions are as follows:
1. Create a contained bubble of sub-space; thus creating a vacuum
2. Harness the vacuum's power
3. Provide a conduit for this power to flow
*it is NOT electrical energy! you cannot plug a ZPM into your CD player!*
4. (see below)
Those are all of the functions that are undisputable, and if you DO try- you are wrong! They didn't go into it, so there are two likely possibilities for the 4/5th step(s)...
1. One part of the Z.P.M. stores energy that has been taken from the vacuum
or
2. The Z.P.M. takes energy only as needed
The most logical choice would have been to go with #2, I only fear that it might explode. We've seen Z.P.M.s tampered with before, and if electrical energy was introduced into a Z.P.M., the results could be catostrophic! Who knows what kind of crazy stuff would happen??
I hope that helped to clear things up, but I'll probably just get more questions.
Addenum: check out this link
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