On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 1:46 PM, Onno Meyer <[email protected]> wrote:
> David asked: > > You going to do the associated grain truck? This has only about 800 > > bushels > > of storage; modern corn yields are 170 bushels/acre. At 25 acres an > hour, > > the internal storage would be filled in ten or 15 minutes. > > Not yet, but I'll consider it. The problem is that the stats > will be very close to an ordinary g-carrier or air/raft, and > it is difficult to make it interesting with the description > alone. > > One option would be to take a dry bulk auger from Starports, > but the logical thing for a grav truck would be to fly over > the silo and dump it, so it needs no auger. > > Another thing to consider is if the truck should be gravitic > or a ground vehicle. Part of the reason why the harvester or > plow are gravitic is to protect the soil, but if there are > roads in the area anyway, the harvester could simply fly > there and meet the truck. The reason that this is done in modern farms is that the combine costs a whole hell of a lot more than the grain carts do. It's stupid and expensive to stop harvesting to transfer the grain to transport. You've got a big honking expensive piece of equipment standing idle, when you could have a cheaper piece of equipment shuttling the grain around. > If the ecology or soil allows no > farm roads, why bother living there at all? Live in a space > station and be done with it. > there may not be roads because there's cheap anti gravity. Fliers don't need roads, so why build them? And with technology, you're going to get ever increasingly large farms. You could end up with large cities, and vast areas of empty space. A farm might have fields miles on a side. (Assuming you've got a sixty foot grain head on the combine, it can harvest a swath about 3.5 miles long every hour. A 3.5 mile square is 7840 acres (about 3200 hectares). > > Of course the world might use grav for personal vehicles > simply because it can (air/rafts are cooler than ground > cars), and lack the infrastructure for ground vehicles. > The decision which might be logical for the group (to > build roads for ground vehicles) might not be logical for > the individual (to become the first to start a ground > vehicle infrastructure). > > I've done both ordinary g-carriers and ordinary trucks for > Traveller before. > _______________________________________________ > GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> > http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l > -- David Scheidt [email protected] _______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l
