A heat pipe system should be able to handle what your load.
The advantage of heat pipes over many other heat-dissipation mechanisms is their great efficiency in transferring heat. A pipe one in...
Fire breathing developed as a way to help raise their young.
Being reptilian, dragons lay eggs, but eggs need warmth to mature.
Because dragons are solitary creatures, and because dragons will e...
Couple ways it could work:
Magnetic fields
The planet could have a really strong magnetic field. Earths magnetic field protects us from a nuclear furnace that's relatively close by.
Likewise, the ...
Float the city.
Dig under it and put in structural bracing to support the buildings and then tons of pontoons. Then let the ocean in to let the city float up, and then tow it up the coast to th...
So time dilation isn't the way to go, because that just makes time slow down, not speed up.
I think the only way you're going to be able to do this is by getting into String Theory (M Theory?) a l...
I don't know about moving heat, but seeing and generating it would be interesting.
We all produce heat, and our bodies let off infrared light. If you had an IR camera you could see someone in the ...
You could just make it out of adamantium or some other space-age indestructible material and let the natives do whatever they want with it. They can walk right up to it, bang on it with clubs or ax...
How about using gravity instead of radio waves? Gravity has detectable effects over great distances, and we currently have sensors that can detect and map fluctuations in gravity, so if you had a d...
Since the virus is airborne, you could spread it using a chemical fog.
The Tom Clancy book Executive Orders has terrorists using a modified spray can at convention centers to spread a virus.
Tha...
A character needs to build a computer out of raw materials in a bronze age.
He has a nano scale factory, so manufacturing chips and such from silicon is possible, but I'm not sure of the best way t...
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You need to figure out what environmental reason there would be to not be symmetrical.
The asymmetric earth creatures I can think of are crabs and lobsters, where one claw is for crushing and the o...
So I remember a story with a submarine that was powered off a big flywheel, and every once and a while they'd have to power up the engine to spin the flywheel back up.
Lots of other people have ...
You could have plants that fly instead of float. Something like a biological spring that winds up, and when the plant has produced enough seeds and such the root releases and the spring unwinds spi...
There are fire resistant plants on Earth that you can model it after.
Redwoods are pretty hard to burn. I recall seeing a video of a guy holding a blowtorch to a piece of redwood, and it not catchi...
Multi-national corporations get to the point where their income rivals the GDP of 90% of the worlds countries, while at the same time because of greed in the financial and banking markets world cur...
