Creature:Tragnon/Energetics

Tragnon Energetics
Tragnons have advanced energetics. Maybe they use very often the power of animals, but they can use power of all four elements, to use energy hidden in fire, water, air and earth and further process it and even change it's type.

Water power
Tragnon know and use Water power, very common modern power source. The cave streams and huge rivers have large amount of kinetic energy hidden in themselves. In small villages, the streams are used for rotating huge wheels, what often propell wood mills used for building ships, or classic wheat mills. But it is not all. Tragnons even build water dams to group much more water in one place, and use it's energy more effectively. Water turbines propell mining elevators, huge mechanisms, and help build massive buildings in mining halls by moving materials easily. Water can be even used for military – when the enemy army will approach, huge water reservoirs in the cave systems will be opened and water will flood and kill whole hostile enemy forces. But it was never used.

Wind power
There blows very strong wind in The Northern mountains. It can be very dangerous, but it can be used for propelling some things too, as do Tragnon. Huge wind mills stand on the low hills, where the wind is very strong, but not too strong to destroy them. Windmills are used as source of power for mine elevators, and for pumping water from lowest parts of the mines. Wind power is used much less as the water power.

Steam power
Tragnons use steam power very often. There are usually huge pumps used to get pumped water to special devices, what will warm it to the boiling point. Steam will expand, and will move turbine, what is used for propelling many things. There is also small steam device in Tragnon hot air balloons, what is used for moving them right way. Steam power is also often used in ships, for propelling ship wheels. Maybe Tragnon don't have advanced land vehicles, but they are to advanced to find their possible replacement. Steam elevators can be found only in the largest mines, but steam is used also in mining, as power source for huge mining machines(but they are also primitive, they work only about five times faster than one Tragnon, and are used there, where the rock is too solid to dig in it easily using classic ways).

Chemical power
Tragnons know many ways, how to use fire. First use is for making warmth, usually for baking or cooking something, or for making steam what is further used. Almost every Tragnon house has a fireplace, what is making house warm even in the winter. Fire is used to help smelt metals in the mines, and also(as torches), as source of light for mines. Basic fuel is classic wood, from the ground, but now is much more used coal, what can be found very often in the underground, in huge deposits, what will not be empty soon. Coal is reliable, cheap, and smart solution, but nobody thinks about the damaged environment, what is truly insignificant with this rate of burning coal. Tragnons also use special tree oils, what burn very long, as the primary light source in dark mines.

Another power sources
Of course, Tragnons use many other things as power sources, for example animals what go round and rotate a huge wheel(what is sometimes done by lowest Tragnon social classes). Doncke's are very strong, so they are used a most. Also, Tragnon know primitive solar power – they will give black rock plates outside, they will wit until they will be warmed enough by solar rays, and after that they will give the stone to the bath, to make it warmer without need of using fire(using in distant villages, where the wood is not easily found).