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Re: Momentos of Mini-Fest/ buy-a-thon/ Doubling my lego collection
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Sun, 25 Mar 2001 20:01:36 GMT
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> A micro mill that processes scrap material is essentially an electric-arc
> furnace in which three giant prongs come down and melt the scrap material.
> Various chemical ingreadients are added to the top layer of slag to alter
> the chemical composition of the molten material (and turn it into a suitable
> grade of steel) while the slag itself captures unwanted material and
> provides radiative protection of the molten material - for this reason the
> transprot buckets are some times designed without a "cap"). The molten
> material is then poured down a giant funnel and fed into giant rollers,
> which create a wide, thin continuous sheet of sheet steel. This is where we
> get much of our sheet steel for car bodies, believe it or not. And it would
> be suitable for ship hulls. The additional buildings that you have mentioned
> are only necessary if you are processing ore. The question is: Do we want
> a site that processes ore, or scrap. I think that you idea is the best
> initially since you would want an ore processing plant on a new planet. My
> idea would be a suplimental site since all scrap material would have to be
> recycled.
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> I can also instead make one of: a oil refinery, plastics refinery, tooling
> manufacturing, plastics molding shop, microchip processing facility, an
> automated electronics assembly plant, a electronics box assembly plant,
> aircraft fabrication facility including a helicopter fabrication facility, a
> mobile food processing plant (which I plan on doing anyway for the show), a
> fiberoptics fabrication center, a water purification and reclimation center,
> a atmospheric processing tower (shake 'n' bake colony), a large toroidal
> fusion reactor, a small vehicle fabrication plant, a textile plant, a
> off-world ranch, hydroponics bays...the ideas go on and on.
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> The question is: what kind of a layout would we want to do given we will be
> very space limited, and we would want to display somthing sci-fi, cool
> looking on it's own, and that would detract from the other buildings.
We could do a ship building yard. Have a space dry dock with little workers
repairing the ship. An assembely dock with a ship in the making. We could
have a cargo monorail, delivering parts. A power plant with fiber optic
lights. Check my sketch out.
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=3878
Just a basic drawing Ships, Docks, Powerplant and so forth. Just an idea.
kai
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