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md_donighal's for one of my own posts.) If this entry looks familiar, it should; it was up for a couple've minutes yesterday, because I forgot I was only there to get the hotlinks.
The original "caloric fluid" was theorized by Benjamin Franklin as the medium that carried electricity and heat. Klass' neocaloric functioned much the same way — invisible to the naked eye, but capable of carrying enough heat that only a few drops poured onto a steel bar would start the bar melting.
Klass said, "A single truck could carry enough neocaloric to power a city for a day." But he also warned that even a few ounces, if spilled, would be enough to destroy a city block.
It could have short-circuited (puncrime) rural electrification, except that nobody seemed capable of duplicating Klass' work, and respectable scientists like Dr. Emerson Ralston of Empire State University dismissed him as a crank.
The clipping of this article in the Adventure! rulebook has annotations in Michael Donighal's handwriting: Mixed state of wave/particle PA energy? Pity Klass died 1923. Accident? Murder?
md_donighal's for one of my own posts.) If this entry looks familiar, it should; it was up for a couple've minutes yesterday, because I forgot I was only there to get the hotlinks.1922
[Adventure!] The New York Times runs an article on Professor Irving Klass' "neocaloric fluid".
The original "caloric fluid" was theorized by Benjamin Franklin as the medium that carried electricity and heat. Klass' neocaloric functioned much the same way — invisible to the naked eye, but capable of carrying enough heat that only a few drops poured onto a steel bar would start the bar melting.
Klass said, "A single truck could carry enough neocaloric to power a city for a day." But he also warned that even a few ounces, if spilled, would be enough to destroy a city block.
It could have short-circuited (puncrime) rural electrification, except that nobody seemed capable of duplicating Klass' work, and respectable scientists like Dr. Emerson Ralston of Empire State University dismissed him as a crank.
The clipping of this article in the Adventure! rulebook has annotations in Michael Donighal's handwriting: Mixed state of wave/particle PA energy? Pity Klass died 1923. Accident? Murder?
