Magi Craft Meister - Vol. 4 Ch. 19 - Let's Make an Engine!

[Liquidxlax]

@TetraSky Solis sounds masculine and so does Lune while Luna and Soleil sound feminine. To me at least

 

[Wolvenworks]

so the magic of the world means that internal combustion engines are practically impossible to make work, but it also means that they can just go straight up to highly efficient jet engines?

 

[Gauvain]

@Liquidxlax
"soleil" is masculine in French and "lune" is feminine and "luna" sound feminine, because there is an "A" at the end
I believe that whatever the language the sun will always be masuclin and the female moon
because the sun symbolizes virility and the moon fertility

 

[Gauvain]

@Wolvenworks
no it's just that he does not have access to resources
and that even if he had access, the energy density of a magic stone is greater
@panneqaha
it could have made a steam engine without problem, but it takes a lot more weight, even with the help of magic stone.
the size of the water supply is too important and especially the maintenance is more important among others because moving parts

 

[HumanBeing]

He does not know how to make an engine, looking at the picture, it looks like pipes on a block, I have a basic understanding which most people should know, but engines require combustion, gas in then the piston compresses the gas so it blows, then the piston either knocks down or goes down by itself then pushes the gas out through a focused tube where multiple pistons each hit at different timings to keep a flow and then pushes the gas somewhere, again, a very basic understanding. So why no work @Gauvain .It's really just steel and hinges so experiments without risks and no worries of big explosions killing people can lead to him developing a proper engine. I just dunno, Maintenance is a thing but looking at current cars, or even a century ago he'll be all good. I'm no mechanic but this is from what I know.

Btw for water supply, they have multiple options, boiling salt water, but it would leave sludge or something so cleaning it is the only problem but using some magic they probably have a way, especially for boats, trains and even cars that can travel probably a distance of 1/2 km or so and then only reach to your neighbours house but experimentation without limits is like simulations.
again to not have people hate on me for pretending to be smart and if I don't include this I'll die of anxiety.
I dunno shit about anything

 

[CelticMutt]

@EOTFOFYL - Which one's Jeb?

 

[Kaarme]

@HumanBeing Internal combustion engines are useless for him, so he doesn't even need to try to make one. They require refined oil to run and pollute. Since it's a world of magic, magic is obviously the way to go. Since he can create heavy golems capable of movement, there obviously is an efficient way of turning magic power into mechanical movement. That's all he needs, apart from the magic jet engine project. By the looks of it he doesn't even need electric motors run by electric magic.

I have no idea why he was even looking at the internal combustion engines and such. Must be because of his Earthling mind.

 

[Gauvain]

@HumanBeing
the problem does not come from his plan, nor from other things show in this chapter, but of the fact that it does not have fuel
This is the artist who is bad, if you read the WN you will not have these drawings, but you will have these explanations and therefore no complaints to make

Compared to what he will do, it would be ridiculous to make a steam engine, or even a conventional thermal engine
His system has no moving parts, the only maintenance is to replace the magic stone ...

it's true that now that I think about it in the manga version there is no explanation
there will be a little more explanation in future chapters when he makes his boat, it will take several chapters,
because it's a complete arc with a story and new characters

 

[GameBoiBoi]

I don't think he even knows what a jet engine is or how it works. There's a cross section of how a piston engine works but what he made looks like a turbojet engine which operates very differently. Considering the energy source that is being used, it would be smarter if he had made a variation of a rocket engine. The fuel efficiency would be much greater since all the energy is being directly converted into thrust. And since refueling would be completed via replacing a stone instead of solid or liquid fuel which would require either replacing the entire rocket or large fuel tanks, this would save significant space and weight due to how large a rocket engine normally is.

I'm pretty sure the author has little to no engineering knowledge when it comes to propulsion technology and simply went "Jet engines are cool! Let's use those!"

 

[GriseousGrime]

Why do they need to go to a port town if they live on an island?

 

[DracoInduperator]

I think he missed the point entirely about his lack of common sense and being OP for the world's current level of magic.

 

[valconius]

This is real engineering fantasy. The fantasy of a collection of magical algorithms that wish into existence what you want. After all, you can imagine it! That is reason! It might be peculiar reasoning, but if you can imagine it, then a computer can too... but rather than thinking about octrees and shared memory, let it be... magic! Let the magic flow, and play in an infinite landscape with endless noetic legos out yonder hinting at endless more beyond the horizon.

P.S. I think there are many magical algorithms out there. Having done my own work, some things seem to just work, and you can do the nitty-gritty proof if you want, but sometimes the patterns just click into place where hundreds of other faulty iterations would seem to be just as possible (but in fact are not, according to some proof which you, the engineer, needn't bother with in some circumstances - that's what makes it magical!).

 

[flannan]

@GriseousGrime - they live on an island, but they don't have boats. And the MC wants to see some boats for inspiration.
Probably because he did not see many boats in his previous life too, and surely did not observe them in detail. His previous life was intense and full of crafting experiences, but that leaves little time for learning arbitrary things.

@XL - world hunger is mostly an organizational problem. To solve it, you need to take over the world and throw away the current economic system.
Producing enough food is not really a problem at any technology level - the problem is dealing with famines by shipping food from other places, or with storing enough food for famine years. Under capitalism, it gets complicated by people not having money to pay for food too.
In short, it's not really an engineering problem. It's a world domination problem.

 

[GravityTaxes]

damn i wish i lived on a private r&d island staffed by cute golem maids

 

[OP_Zed]

why didn't he just dig deep under the crust? I mean, a bunch of organics probably were burried under for years before humans came

 

[Snailman32]

Why is Reiko the only one of his golems that looks human? He seems to put a lot of effort into making them mostly human, but can't be assed with the skin, apparently

 

[p2x909]

Why is Reiko the only one of his golems that looks human? He seems to put a lot of effort into making them mostly human, but can't be assed with the skin, apparently

Maybe that's his fetish.