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[http://ibnservice.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Flywheel-Energy-Storage.png A Roundworld procrastinator hall]. The massive flywheels in the cylinders store | [http://ibnservice.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Flywheel-Energy-Storage.png A Roundworld procrastinator hall]. The massive flywheels in the cylinders store | ||
energy rather than time, but what's one without the other? --[[User:Old Dickens|Old Dickens]] ([[User talk:Old Dickens|talk]]) 03:27, 3 May 2018 (UTC) | energy rather than time, but what's one without the other? --[[User:Old Dickens|Old Dickens]] ([[User talk:Old Dickens|talk]]) 03:27, 3 May 2018 (UTC) | ||
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I've usually seen illustrated and assumed that the procrastinators spun on a vertical axis. This seems intuitive and puts most of the stress on the bottom bearing which can be buttered quickly by the attendant. {{NW}}, however, mentions the set Lu-Tze uses in Ankh-Morpork which "look like your grannie's mangle". "Backpack" personal models would need to work in any orientation, so it's the old problem of priorities. --[[User:Old Dickens|Old Dickens]] ([[User talk:Old Dickens|talk]]) 01:34, 16 March 2021 (UTC) | |||
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I read Qu as a pun on the character of Q in the James Bond stories who supplies the hero with all sorts of technologically bizarre weapons.
- That's what it says in Qu, and I agree --Iron Hippo 19:06, 18 November 2009 (UTC)
Life imitates art
A Roundworld procrastinator hall. The massive flywheels in the cylinders store energy rather than time, but what's one without the other? --Old Dickens (talk) 03:27, 3 May 2018 (UTC)
Engineering
I've usually seen illustrated and assumed that the procrastinators spun on a vertical axis. This seems intuitive and puts most of the stress on the bottom bearing which can be buttered quickly by the attendant. Night Watch, however, mentions the set Lu-Tze uses in Ankh-Morpork which "look like your grannie's mangle". "Backpack" personal models would need to work in any orientation, so it's the old problem of priorities. --Old Dickens (talk) 01:34, 16 March 2021 (UTC)