MasterLagger wrote:
lpfreaky90 wrote:

(though the energy that is required to keep the portals should be less then what's generated from the water ofc)

Well, that depends on what kind of energy the portals use.

No, you can only get infinite energy if you get more energy then you put in. The energy you put in is the energy required to keep the portals stable and the energy you get is from the wheel in the stream of water. No matter what energy. If there has to be a energy transformation from movement to electricity for example that should be in the equation as well. The final equation should be positive for you to have infinite energy

Spam Nugget wrote:
If they want electricity all they have to do is put two portals one above the other to create an infinite loop then run water through them to power a turbine.

What about Potential Energy (E = m ? g ? h)?

If the water gets closer to the floor portal its Kinetic Energy increases and Potential Energy decreases at the same rate. But when the water teleports to the ceiling portal, what the hell happens then?

My guess is that abovementioned energy 'gain' (?) is the same as the Energy cost for keeping the portals open. This is the only possible way the game didn't just break. And it would explain how high-up-in-the-air portals consume more energy, right? 'cause That would seem to make sense if you ask me. I think the longer the wormhole, the higher the cost of energy.

I don't think wormholes have a length in that way.

lpfreaky90 wrote:
Spam Nugget wrote:

If they want electricity all they have to do is put two portals one above the other to create an infinite loop then run water through them to power a turbine.

water will start splashing colliding with the turbine and a few minutes later we will not have water creating electricity.

This was my thought when I read this same theory on the Steam forums. Although they might be able to surround the portals with a glass tunnel so that water can't escape.

Falconerd wrote:
I don't think wormholes have a length in that way.

This is absolutely correct. This thread has gone way off the rails, but let's indulge. The only way a real portal gun would work is if the surfaces were "powered". Assuming the portal gun is some sort of quantum device, you would need a constant stream of dark matter particles peppering the surface in order to maintain the stability of the portal and keep it open.

The game explains their way out of this with the moon rock element they discovered (the white gel), but unfortunately no such thing exists in real life, so we'd have to attach panels to a constant, immense source of power that basically creates gravitational holes, then pipe that energy onto the surfaces you'd want to be portalable...

I've now thought about this entirely too hard.

Or perhaps they work off some different, undiscovered principle entirely? I mean, we have no way at the moment of creating wormholes (as far as im aware), certainly not of that size, so who knows how it would actually be powered? Maybe it would just suck in heat or something, or draw some power from some hitherto known phenomen? Or hell maybe it could just throw the law of conservation of energy straight out the window.
But my moneys on the fact it was actually just made up entirely and is in actually completely impossible no matter how much theoretical physics you throw at it...

Using the LHC at CERN Switzerland (and probably a couple other particle accelerators as well), we (mankind) are able to create tiny wormholes which lasts only a fraction of a millisecond.

Anyways; we're extremly off topic here, maybe we should continue our conversation about infinite power with portals somewhere else

msleeper wrote:
Pretty sure it says they're disassembled just to be reassembled again.

I agree.