Timeline for Managing heat dissipation in a magic wand
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| May 18, 2019 at 7:16 | comment | added | Starfish Prime | @Eth er, yes. That's what I was suggesting. | |
| May 17, 2019 at 15:23 | comment | added | Eth | @StarfishPrime The tube of ice itself should be used as a heat sink. Ice is the best heat sink material you will find at this tech level (and arguably still today with those constraints), and even melted, water is still rather fantastic. When you run out of ice, water should be easy to find in many situations. | |
| May 17, 2019 at 7:25 | comment | added | Starfish Prime | I don't think that a frozen wand would absorb enough energy to be useful here. You'd need to make a wand ice lolly (or popsicle, if you prefer)... that chunk of ice will absorb a decent amount of heat (though you'd need to reinforce it with a container if it needed to absorb blast forces too). The ice coating would eventually melt or blast off, so you'd have a limited number of useable wands. | |
| May 17, 2019 at 3:42 | comment | added | Cyn | Didn't the narrator just "happen to find" a single wand? | |
| May 17, 2019 at 2:52 | comment | added | JBH | This appears to be a bit of a problem for Question Limitations, bullet #3, the solution must be practical in a melee situation. But it's a clever idea! | |
| May 17, 2019 at 1:10 | history | answered | Brythan | CC BY-SA 4.0 |