I spent four days making my two test dynamos, then one day testing them. Both use a hand k to operate their rotor, but one uses mago gee power, while the other is a bit more plicated, using cumutive wiring for the field windings, meaning it's a self-p geor that doesn't need mags. The dowo that geor, as I've previously mentioned is that it needs an initial voltage to excite the field windings. O's operational though, as long as it keeps spinning it doesn't need aernal power source.

  I decided to test the mag dynamo first. Any mags I make are going to be pretty weak, and proo losing their magic fields. While teise might be able to provide a jolt of electricity in bination with the blood from the electric fishes, which would allow a jumpstart for the dynamo, I'd rather not make the system depe on me for that initial jolt. If we use crystals and the blood to magize some steel, and thehat to gee the small amount of energy necessary to start up the dynamo, that bypasses the need for myself to restart it. Ideally we'll find some lead, and we make some sulfuric acid to make batteries that aplish the same purpose without needing the crystals or the blood.

  Getting everythi up, and then magizing the steel for the dynamo took a few hours, but once I did that, the dynamo ran fihough not for very long. As I was afraid of, the magized steel lost its magic properties ihan a minute in the dynamo. I somewhat expected this result though. By running the magized steel in the dynamo, I'm basically stantly exposing it to opposing magic fields, which have the reverse effect of the process by which I made them magic to begin with.

  I had two tests that I ran with the sed dynamo. The first involved initializing it's power directly from the blood electrie, since I khat was a stable source of power. As I began turning the dynamo, I could feel the eleags resisting me, and I used my free arm to disect the power soing into the dynamo. I had attached a coil to the output of the dynamo, which I nudged along some iron filings while I tio turn the dynamo, to check for electric current oput. The oved the iron filings, which I wasn't surprised about, sidering I could literally feel the resistan turning the rotor.

  The sed test with the sed dynamo involved the tricky process of attempting to start it using the first dynamo. This took an hour to get set up, as I o make more mags, the all my wiri up suffitly so I could turn both dynamo hand ks at the same time. Once everything was set up, I started turning both ks at the same time, and although initially I was a little worried, it ended up starting fine.

  Now that I know both of these work, I could tih the whole process to make a rge dynamo at our dam, but holy, we don't have that much of a use for it. We likely will have uses for it iure, but those could be years away, and I 't really justify spending the time to build a much rger dynamo and modifying the dam to power it without any immediate uses. I'd also o wait quite a few months until after spring to really dig in to the project, sidering the dam would o be bypassed while I work, and spring is when the dam helps regute the water the most.

  We have a few things for which it could currently be used. For example, we could electrolyze water to get pure oxygen for bleag the paper we make, but this seems like overkill for just that. We could also build a radio broadcaster, but we don't have that much of a use for it ourselves, though it would probably be the mainnd a lot. I don't actually know if our p has a stable enough ionosphere to really enable long distance radio unicatioher. If it doesn't, theeology would probably just be stolen and utilized by other nations more effectively than we use it. Additionally, other than copper, we're also currently quite metal poor, which limits our uses of electricity even further. For now, I am satisfied with the knowledge that I make a rge amount of electricity if we iure.

  Having finished w in the b for the time being, I left Tiberius with a lump sum of moo use for project funding for a few months. I explicitly told him that he won't get any more funds until after the third month of the year, so he shouldn't spend them all at onbsp; As for myself, I decided to che oatus of the various things going on around the city.

  The popution tio grow and more and more buildings are built through the city. I should talk with Zeb about building taller buildings potentially. Currently, most of the buildings are simir to the apartment style building I came up with, though there are occasional single domicile homes for the wealthier goblins, and family homes for the humans and dwarves. If we keep growing and expanding to the point I'd like us to, then it would probably be smart for us to start pnning for that eventual poputioy, si won't cost us much to do so.

  I'd like to see some three or four story buildings, to increase our poputioy even more, though those buildings would o be built away from our inner walls, so they don't obstruct the inner defeoo mubsp; Land space is a valuable odity on an isnd, so we should probably take it into at now as we tio expand and develop. It looks like there are now three stru teams, and it seems like Zeb has gotten a few more workers with stone shaping skills.

  That just means we're going to keep growing faster and faster. I wonder if Zaka keep up. If he 't, then we're going to have to figure out how to get moblins who summon imps to expand our popution. I have a bit of a theory as to how he gaihat ability, and the fact that no oblio have gai only reinforces it.

  I think that Zaka's prior isotion on the isnd may have ihe ability. From what I've learned from the humanoids from the mainnd, it seems like demoo grow like weeds unless you wipe them out pletely. Which probably means that when you are isoted as a demon, you probably get the option to summon imps when you prestige. For a weak goblin, you might not even have the mana to do it, based on what I learned from Zaka, but the crystal cave provided him a sourana to overe that normal restri.

  I also had the opportunity to talk with Konkur about the dition of the vein they were mining. He said that the pertage of the vein that was gypsum was deing and the pertage of quartz was rising. He also kept a few high quality quartz samples for me to look at. While they were quite pure, I was a little disappointed by them, though that isn't Konkur's fault. They are nice samples, but I recall pictures from Earth of massive quartz crystals, so by parison they just don't impress me much.

  Though it's a good sign if the vein is tinuing to ge in position. It means they might actually find more types of minerals if they keep going. Holy, that might be what I go to work o as a projebsp; Before that though, I should pulverize the existing quartz, to improve its ste density. Since Zeb has three stru crews now, I should ask him to have them build a new warehouse facility along the road to the harbor, but close to the city. That way we use it for intermediate ste befoods are transported over there.