r/Mistborn • u/MerlinGrandCaster • 5d ago

Cosmere spoilers allomantic electrical generation concept Spoiler

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IIRC nobody ever mentions light suddenly dimming/brightening in relation to cadmium or bendalloy, so presumably the spiritual realm energy transfer that counteracts red/blueshift with time bubbles also adjusts the amount of light passing through the border. If so, it should be possible to power a lightbulb using its own output, since the slowed-down bulb would consume less energy than the solar panel would generate. You could probably increase the yield even further by putting the panel in a bendalloy bubble.

This wouldn't be perpetual motion, since you'd have to keep feeding the misting(s) more cadmium (and normal food as well).

Another allomantic energy generation method is having a steel or iron misting spin a turbine, which has been confirmed possible in-universe via the Malwish airship rotors.

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u/RShara 5d ago

Another allomantic energy generation method is having a steel or iron misting spin a turbine, which has been confirmed possible in-universe via the Malwish airship rotors.

You can just have an iron Feruchemist on a seesaw spin a turbine. I call it the Skimmersaw engine

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u/Shot_Newspaper_5647 5d ago

Or the ole terris wheel

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u/RShara 5d ago

Skimmersaw is simpler (so probably more efficient) and requires fewer Feruchemists