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Engineer: Émilie D’Aramitz - EFL|Aventureux
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In pursuit of some of the most exciting science of our time, the EFL| Oil & Machinery has pushed the boundaries of technology and the scale of developments to new extremes. A brief report of the key construction aspects of EFL oil and Machinery's trade lane links.
Further information regarding the construction of EFL Oil and Machinery lane links will follow in subsequent reports
COMPONENTS:
MAGNETS
Thousands of "lattice magnets" of different varieties and sizes are used to direct the ships through the accelerators. These include 1232 dipole magnets each 15 meters in length which allow the focal point to bend and subsequently tighten the ships trajectory. The lattice magnets are responsible for keeping the ships stable and precisely aligned while passing through each link. EFL Oil & Machinery has found the lattice magnets to be more successful in this application; if normal magnets were used instead of superconducting magnets, the individual magnets would have to be 120 kilometers long to reach the same amount of energy. The dipoles are also equipped with sextupole, octupole and decapole magnets, all of which allow for the correction of small imperfections in the magnetic field at the extremities of the dipoles.
A number of quadrupole magnets are used per individual link to create a separate system which EFL Oil and Machinery has called the inner triplet. There are eight inner triplets per pair of links, four in each direction. The purpose of the inner triplets in to tighten the beam, making it 12.5 times narrower than initial tests allowed. This allows for each individual link to focus the ships trajectory to assure the flight path is a direct line, failure to do this would result in catastrophic consequences such as damage to components, damage to ships, or loss of life. To also prevent damage to components, insertion magnets are also responsible, these ensure that stray particles do not come in contact with EFL Oil and Machinery's links' most sensitive components. The main dipoles in each of EFL Oil and Machinery's links generate powerful 8.3 tesla magnetic fields.
To overcome the potential for geometrical frustration; the surface is to be tiled and free of any presupposed topology, the tiling is to be built with a strict application of the local interaction rule. By doing this, we observe that the surface inherits the topology of a sphere and so receives a curvature. The final structure allows for a perfect propagation of the pentagonal order.
POWER
The electromagnets use a current of 11,080 amperes to produce the field, and a superconducting coil allows the high currents to flow without losing any energy to electrical resistance. The main line of each of EFL Oil and Machinery's links is made of copper. It has high energy yields, but it is expected to lose some of its energy to the internal magnets due to resistance. To tackle this energy-loss, superconducting wires made of niobium-titanium (NbTi) are used on the links to connect electromagnets to their power supply. The superconducting wire for each of EFL Oil and Machinery's links consists of 6300 strands of niobium-titanium filaments, embedded in copper. Each filament is about one tenth of the thickness of a human hair. When ultra-cold, the wire conducts electricity without resistance.
The underlying physics involved in the movement of the ship through the links are rather simple. Difficulty arises in trying to quantitatively determine the time dynamics of the electric and magnetic fields present, and an analytical description of the motion of the ship. To do so, it is essential to examine the relationship between the current, the induced magnetic field, the motion of the ship - all as functions of time. To do this, it is important to determine the instantaneous induced magnetic field and current in the loop at a given time. Take Faraday's Law and derive the equation for the induced EMF. Solve Ohm's Law for an analytical formulation of current as a function of resistance, initial charge in the capacitor(s), capacitance of the power cap(s), and induced EMF. Take the derivative of this equation to get an equation for I'(t) with no integrals in it. Replace I(t) and I'(t) with something calculate-able. Next, manipulate the Lorentz Force law, it must be determined that the instantaneous magnetic field at any point on the ship as a function of loop geometry and current at a given time. Integrate the magnetic field over the length of the ship and multiply by the instantaneous current to reveal the magnitude of the Lorentz Force at a given time. Set the Lorentz Force magnitude equal to mL" (F=ma). Solve this equation for I(t) and take its time derivative. Now there are two equations for I'(t) which can be set equal to each other, leaving a differential equation for L(t). Solve this differential equation to reveal the time evolution of L(t) [position of ship], L'(t) [velocity of ship], L''(t) [acceleration of ship].
CRYOCUBES
EFL Oil and Machinery links will operate at 1.9 Kelvin (note: this is colder than space, the temperature in outer space is 2.73 Kelvin. This is actually the temperature of Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation, which is spread throughout Gallia. Cyrocubes are used to assist in the cooling process. The cryogenics for each link is contained in a closed loop. Each loop holds a fixed amount of helium that is cooled by the cryocubes and distributed throughout a sector. As the helium is pumped around each of EFL oil and Machinery's links, it begins to warm. The warm helium is then captured and returned to be cooled again. While liquid helium is used in this cooling system, it is a highly volatile substance, and subsequently care is to be taken in that there are no damage to any of the links and the link components that may cause events of a catastrophic level. To prevent unnecessary risk to EFL Oil and Machinery's engineers or logistical crews, the helium is transported and introduced to the system as a high-pressure super-critical helium gas at 4.6 K, which will be distributed along the sector to a number of local cooling loops. There, the super-critical helium will be expanded into a lower-pressure environment, which causes it to liquefy at either 4.5 K or 1.8 K. This liquid will then be used to cool the superconducting magnets.
A number of experiments were conducted in systematically varying parameters for performance optimization by EFL Oil and Machinery. The report states the effects of the operating frequency and the charge pressure as they have the largest influence on the cooling performance. The influence of the frequency is directly related to the thermal penetration depth in the solid matrix. The cooling performance is dependent on the gross cooling power and the dynamic losses in the cryocooler. The no-load temperature decreases with increasing frequency caused by the increasing gross cooling power (PV work) until the increasing dynamic losses in the regenerator start do dominate. The optimum frequency can be found around 2.27 Hz. Correspondingly, in the tested charge pressure range from 1.70 MPa to 1.84 MPa, an optimum charge pressure was found at around 1.76 MPa. At this pressure a dynamic pressure ratio up to 3.21 was measured. With the charge pressure of 1.76 MPa and an optimum operating frequency of 2.27 Hz, the no-load temperature of the cold head decreases from 300 K to 75 K in 18 minutes, and down to 52 K in 36.5 minutes. The time taken from ambient temperature to liquid nitrogen temperature accounts for less than half of the overall cool-down time. At the same time the temperature of the warm flange rises to 311 K.
Although the helium cryogenics for EFL Oil and Machinery's links are a sealed system, it is expected to lose about 25% of the helium inventory over all of the links maintained every year due to leaks. Due to this, regular top-ups will be required to make up the deficit. There is testing underway to determine if it is possible to reduce losses by minimizing the total amount of helium able to flow in the closed loop at any given time. This is still under testing as it is essential to determine if the reduced amount of helium will allow for sufficient cooling. Lack of sufficient cooling will result in failure of components due to overheating. In extreme cases, full link outages may occur.
Subject: RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT Attention: ADMINISTRATION
Engineer: Émilie D’Aramitz - EFL|Aventureux
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In pursuit of some of the most exciting science of our time, the EFL| Oil & Machinery has pushed the boundaries of technology and the scale of developments to new extremes. A brief report of the key construction aspects of EFL oil and Machinery's trade lane links.
Further information regarding the construction of EFL Oil and Machinery lane links will follow in subsequent reports
USING LINKS
Each individual link is a separate entity, combined the series of links makes a lane. While the ship is 'fired' through the initial link, without constant magnetic interference the ship would only travel a short distance. The links are spaced a set distance apart to disallow the ship to slow in between links. By doing this, the forces of travel are greatly reduced on the ship - only being a potential problem while entering and leaving the lanes. Research is currently underway to reduce stresses on the ship, and therefore determine a safer entry and exit point for each of the lanes.
It has been calculated that the speed of propagation of an electromagnetic field is approximately that of the speed of light. The equations predict the existence of waves of oscillating electric and magnetic fields that travel through empty space at a speed that could be predicted from past electrical experiments. The agreement of the past experimental results seems to show that light and magnetism are affections of the same substance, and that light is an electromagnetic disturbance propagated through the field according to electromagnetic laws.
Electromagnetism in the algebra of quaternions and made the electromagnetic potential the centerpiece of this theory. It has also introduced the concept of the electromagnetic field in comparison to force lines. By understanding the propagation of electromagnetism as a field emitted by active particles, it is possible to advance work on light. It is believed that the propagation of light required a medium for the waves, dubbed the luminiferous aether. Over time, the existence of such a medium, permeating all space and yet apparently undetectable by mechanical means, proved impossible to reconcile with past experiments. Moreover, it seemed to require an absolute frame of reference in which the equations were valid, with the distasteful result that the equations changed form for a moving observer.
While traveling through links, the crew would would actually see a central disc of bright light. Despite common assumption, the crew would not see star lines stretching out past the ship. This is due to the Doppler effect, specifically the Doppler blue shift, that results in the wavelength of electromagnetic radiation, including visible light, shortening as the source of the light moves towards the observe As the spaceship is sent between each link, the wavelength of the light from the stars would shift out of the visible spectrum into the X-ray range. Meanwhile, Cosmic Background Radiation (CBR), which is thermal radiation that is spread fairly uniformly across the universe would shift into the visible spectrum, appearing to the crew as a central disc of bright light.
It is important to note that it is not possible to enter or leave hyperspace too close to a large mass, such as a planet or star; this is due to gravity forces, as well as the risk of unintentional atmospheric entry resulting in catastrophic decompression.
Subject: RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT Attention: ADMINISTRATION
Engineer: Émilie D’Aramitz - EFL|Aventureux
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In pursuit of some of the most exciting science of our time, the EFL| Oil & Machinery has pushed the boundaries of technology and the scale of developments to new extremes. A brief report of the key construction aspects of EFL oil and Machinery's trade lane links.
Further information regarding the construction of EFL Oil and Machinery lane links will follow in subsequent reports
LANE MAINTENANCE PROCEDURES
In the past, EFL Oil and Machinery commonly used a Preventive Maintenance (PM) program, which was based on the underlying assumptions of maintenance theory has always been that there is a fundamental cause-and-effect relationship between scheduled maintenance and operating reliability. This assumption was based on the intuitive belief that because mechanical parts wear out, the reliability of any equipment is directly related to operating age. It therefore followed that the more frequently equipment was overhauled, the better protected it was against the likelihood of failure. It is assumed that failure probabilities can be determined statistically for individual links and components, and that replacing parts or performing adjustments in time can often prevent failure. Maintenance and operations, failure and reliability data being reported highlighted problems with this approach. Due to the highlighted problems, EFL Oil and Machinery have since adopted a reliability-centered maintenance approach.
Maintenance is required to increase the probability that a machine or component will function in the required manner over its design life-cycle with a minimum amount of downtime. The strategies EFL Oil and Machinery have in place, rather than being applied independently, are optimally integrated to take advantage of their respective strengths, and maximize facility and equipment reliability while minimizing life-cycle costs. The goal of this approach is to reduce the Life-Cycle Cost of each link to a minimum while continuing to allow each link to function as intended with required reliability. Maintenance decisions are to be supported by technical and economic justification. This approach also considers the consequence of failure of a given component. Maintenance analysis carefully considers the following questions - while the answers are usually fairly straight forward for link repairs, often highlighting them as high priority, this is often utilized across all of EFL Oil and Machinery's maintenance tasks:
What does the system or equipment do
What are its functions?
What functional failures are likely to occur?
What are the likely consequences of these functional failures?
What can be done to reduce the probability of the failure, identify the onset of failure, or reduce the consequences of the failure?
Some benefits of having this combined system that is utilized by EFL Oil and Machinery include safety, security, cost, reliability, scheduling, and efficiency. These are explained in more depth below.
Safety - The safety policy of EFL Oil and Machinery is to avoid loss of life, personal injury, illness, property loss, property damage, and environmental harm, and to ensure safe and healthful conditions for persons working at or utilizing or visiting EFL Oil and Machinery facilities. By ensuring link maintenance is completed as required, risk of critical failure causing damage, or loss of life is reduced considerably.
Security - Inside each blue pack is an anti-tampering, explosive device designed to destroy the contents if there is an attempt to open without proper DNA or fingerprint recognition. Blue Packs are equipped with dual password locks requiring input from two employees, the Chief of Security for receiving location and the EFL Oil and Machinery technician overseeing delivery, as well as an internal tracking beacon.
Cost - Due to the initial investment required for obtaining the technological tools, training, and equipment condition baselines, this maintenance Program typically results in an increase in maintenance costs. This increase is relatively short-lived, averaging two to three years. The cost of repair decreases as failures are prevented and preventive maintenance tasks are replaced by condition monitoring. The net effect is a reduction of both repair and total maintenance costs.
Reliability - This program places great emphasis on improving equipment reliability through the feedback of maintenance experience and equipment condition data to planners, designers, maintenance managers, and manufacturers. This information is instrumental for continually upgrading the equipment specifications for increased reliability. The increased reliability that comes from this maintenance program leads to fewer equipment failures, greater availability for maintenance support, and lower maintenance costs.
Scheduling - The ability of a condition-monitoring program to forecast maintenance provides time for planning, obtaining replacement parts, and arranging environmental and operating conditions before the maintenance is done. A principal advantage is that it obtains the maximum use from all components and subsequently each link. Component replacement is based on actual equipment condition rather than a predetermined, generic length of life.
Efficiency/Productivity - Safety is the primary concern. The secondary concern of is cost-effectiveness. Cost-effectiveness takes into consideration the priority of the repairs and then matches a level of cost appropriate to that priority. The flexibility of the programs approach to maintenance ensures that the proper type of maintenance is performed on equipment when it is needed. Existing maintenance that is not cost-effective is identified and not performed.
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Engineer: Émilie D’Aramitz - EFL|Aventureux
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Imagine a world where virtual reality and global connectivity enables universal access to high quality entertainment. A brief report of the key construction aspects of Holo-tainment bands.
Further information regarding the Holo-tainment bands will follow in subsequent reports
HOLO-TAINMENT BANDS
There are a number of holo-tainment bands currently on the market, however they all have one thing in common, Holo-tainment bands are a non invasive, entertainment device that comes in the form of a band worn around the head. Each device directly interfaces with the users brain.
The most popular holo-tainment band is the current: I-300 series. In this series, the holo-tainment bands are not only worn around the head, but they also connect wirelessly to the individuals pre-existing neuralnet chip. This allows for a fully immersive experience into the virtual world, including the use of senses such as smell, warmth, and touch, to allow the user to perceive themselves as actually participating in the activities that the band is programmed with. Each of the holo-tainment bands possess elaborate safety and anti-tampering mechanisms to ensure user safety.
The alternative option is the J-250 series. This relies on a number of sensors that scan the brain 250 times per minute for activity spikes. These spikes can be used to trigger a select range of software actions. This particular device is less desirable than the one mentioned above as the user experience will be limited to a thought process based adventure only.
Each band comes with a number of pre-programmed scenarios include exotic vacations and allowing a user to perceptually "become" a character in a fictional story-line.
COMPLICATIONS
To understand the functions of the holo-tainment band, it is essential to understand how it interacts with the human brain. Fixes for any complications of this device are constantly being researched, however the main concerns are as follows.
Information Processing - The human brain is a product of evolution, this means compromises in the evolution process are inevitable. The cranial nervous system is a multi-scale structure and because of this there are several important problems in the mechanism of information processing. Some of these problems can include the fine connection structure of neuron scales and the mechanism of brain-scale feedback. Because of this, a comprehensive calculation of the number of neurons and synapses is only 1/1000 of the size of the human brain, and despite the advances made over the ages, it is still very difficult to study at the current level of scientific research.
Computational Models and Algorithms - In the current research of cognitive brain computing model, it is necessary to model the brain information processing system based on multi-scale brain neural system data analysis results. Brain functions such as Intelligent behavioral ability such as perception, self-learning and memory, and choice are not always the most easily identifiable in any situation. Training models and equipment prototypes require a lot of computational overhead to ensure there is no irreversible side effects during the 'reading' of the individuals thoughts.
Obsolete Software/Hardware - By the time the existing software reaches the customer base, it is obsolete. A newer system has been created and a new model of holo-tainment band has been released. Despite this, even the most basic computer system, can have catastrophic issues such as storage and computational fusion, pulse discharge mechanism, and failure between the connection between neurons. It is essential to continue development on the software as well as the hardware. To improve hardware capabilities, it is important to continue to develop neural computing components such memory containers, and sensory sensors based on new materials such as nano-meters, thus supporting the construction of more complex devices. Obsolete software can be updated, however it is impossible to provide the latest hardware without encouraging the purchase of a new device. This being the case, and the natural degrading of the organic bio-neural processors, one can argue if it is financially viable to release regular updates at all.
Health - As it has been recommended to never use the holo-tainment band while the device is charging due to risk of electric shock, the unit will not power on during the set charging period as an inbuilt safety feature. It is unclear as to how bio-neural manipulation effects the user long term. Current research has been unable to identify and link health issues that can continuously be linked with the use of holo-tainment bands. Research will continue, but at this point the outcome is unclear.
Hacker interference - Whenever a new piece of technology hits the market, hackers will inevitably see it as an opportunity. Particular groups will always seek out ways to exploit vulnerabilities in the product in hopes of either "improving" the device, making money from it, or just causing frustration for the company behind it. As the Holo-tainment bands rely on existing forms of wireless communications and interfaces there is always a risk of interference. Additional concerns surround unauthorized updates from undesirable parties to companies giving the potential to distribute data such as propaganda among the users. This is a risk for all applications using the pre-existing neuralnet chip technology. Holo-tainment bands have a high level of security, it is up to the provider of the existing ship to protect against such concerns.
Tampering - Holo-tainment bands possess elaborate safety and anti-tampering mechanisms, but once these are disabled the devices can be programmed to become even more powerful sensory stimulators. A number of cases have been reported and the universally termed hypno-tainment bands has been developed to classify this illegally modified category. When using the illegally modified holo-tainment bands, the user seem to fall into a hypnotic trance during use, research shows that these devices have the potential to be highly addictive for some users, with only a small number of users being able to use them only as a recreational tool. Additional safety features such as the device being disabled during the charging period have been disabled, this has already caused a number of reported injuries, and fatalities. Research is underway to determine what additional security measures can be implemented to prevent this.
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Engineer: Émilie D’Aramitz - EFL|Aventureux
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We strongly believe that only remote health practices can propel healthcare further into the future while making patients the primary point of focus.
Further information regarding Bio-Stability Monitors will follow in subsequent reports
BIO-STABILITY MONITORS
The bio-stability monitor is the size of a grain of rice and is implanted under local anesthesia beneath the patient's skin in the tricep area of the right arm. The monitor is invisible to the naked eye and relatively painless to insert. It contains a unique 16 digit identification number. A handheld scanner passed near the insertion site activates the chip and displays the number on the scanner. Doctors and other medical staff use the identification number to access the patient's records on a secure database via encrypted internet access. As well as a physical scan and access of the unique identifier, the bio-stability monitor also is able to store health records which can be regularly updated via a wireless connection and syncing to the server at the local medical facility.
In addition to storing medical records, a major advantage of the the bio-stability monitor is the ability to allow healthcare professionals to receive clinically accurate information about the users health status away from the medical facility. With access to information such as the users real time location, and the ability to monitor vital signs, healthcare professionals are able to triage casualties before they even physically arrive at the field hospital or sick bay. By effectively extending critical care pathways outside the hospital, users can be guaranteed swift processing and avoid waiting for triage. This wealth of critical, real-time data which was previously only available in scattered forms across an assortment of multiple antiquated devices, is now at the fingertips of heathcare professionals in an easy to read, and understand, format.
Bio-stability monitors also allow for healthcare professionals to step away from traditionally large medical monitoring machines as well as offering the potential to save users from the costly and unnecessary clinical visits. This wearable health technology has been designed to ensure upmost flexibility and ease of use. It is a life-changing, and life saving, device, one that provides users with the ongoing peace of mind that comes from knowing their vital signs can be constantly monitored by the healthcare professionals taking care of them.
The bio-stability monitor also allows for healthcare professionals to deliver continuous, predetermined doses of medications. This allows for users to be treated remotely and reduce costs on the healthcare system. Research is being undertaken to determine the capability of utilizing this for a long term, slow release, performance enhancing drug to improve users in, for example, high stress jobs such as the police force and military. The bio-stability monitor at this point in time is able to release a controlled amount of a drug, administered at specific times of the day, without the use of pumps, valves or a power supply for up to two year without a refill for users requiring this service.
Bio-stability monitors are often used in the Royal Navy pilots and Royal Marines to allow access to information real-time location information, and health information regarding steps taken, distance moved, calories burned, heart rate, temperature, and is capable of measuring anything from body fat to blood oxygen level. This information is useful to determine training progress, enhanced search and rescue, proof of life, and battlefield fitness reports on demand.
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Engineer: Émilie D’Aramitz - EFL|Aventureux
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We believe efficiency is key in our engine development. EFL Oil & Machinery specialize in High Performance Engine Development. We are the brand name for engines, servicing, and repairs.
Further information regarding CNO Engine Developments will follow in subsequent reports
CONSTRUCTION
Traditional reactor designs have previously all focused on low-temperature and pressure Proton-proton (p-p) reactions between Promethene and oil to gain the desired results. When Promethene is chemically bonded to the long-chain hydrocarbons found in Oil, the resulting fuel can undergo nuclear fusion at a pressure and temperature that smaller Gallic engines can handle safely. The hydrogen in the Oil or LPG is literally fused into the carbon in a partial CNO fusion reaction, leaving behind only the rare Prometheum and nitrogen gas. The major use of this Prometheum is as a catalyst that allows Gallic capital ship engines to run at a safe temperature, while not being consumed itself. This p-p reaction is not desirable in engine use as it has a large number of inefficiencies. The main being that an extreme amount of proton-proton interactions must occur before a single atom of Deuterium is produced taking time and wasting resources.
Research has shown that it is possible to utilize the Carbon-Nitrogen-Oxygen (c-n-o) cycle of fusion for increased efficiency. This would have a double benefit since higher temperatures mean higher exhaust efficiency. While there is an increased need for equipment in regards to mass per cubic meter, the c-n-o cycle will produce an equivalent amount of power using a considerably smaller unit. The decrease in size will subsequently decrease the weight of the unit.
This initial design was eventually extended by two additional models based off the antimatter initiated micro-fission, and fusion cycles. One of these designs, the Anti proton Initiated Inertial Confinement Fusion cycle comprised the integrations of an extraction/collection, storage and transportation system for antiparticles. The working principle was later proved by the two now confirmed Einstein space-time theories. Now replace the gravitational body with a very fast rotating kernel-less quantum singularity. However this will be covered in more detail in a later report.
Returning to the more recent c-n-o cycled engines; it must be noted that fusion reactions mediated by electromagnetic force typically involve two reactants forming one product, with momentum conserved by the emission of a gamma ray. In addition to this, there are several conditions that must be met to ensure fusion reaction viability. One of which is that the reaction must have a sufficiently high cross section to maintain high power output. Another concerns the composition of reactants involved. Reactants with high atomic numbers are disfavored. The final condition is that the reaction must be exothermic to achieve ignition. Failure of any of these conditions may result in catastrophic failure of the engine itself.
This is in stark contrast to the Sirian engines, which operate using alternative fuel sources.