Jonathan Palfrey
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
Penric can get water from the air, and also turn it to ice. I wonder what else? Purify seawater (any advantage over air?)? Concentrate alcoholic drinks (like winter wine but faster)? Separate water into hydrogen and oxygen (for what purpose?)? Weld objects together (maybe not just metals)? Heat food like a microwave oven, or freeze it? Nuclear fission, probably not. Nuclear fusion, surely not.
Lois McMaster Bujold
Good questions. Purify seawater, sure; it just needs evaporated and condensed, tho' if one is in/by the sea, the air should be damp enough to skip step one. Ice wine, yes. Break down water molecules, not sure. Heating/cooling/cooking, maybe on a very small scale. (Mustn't overheat the sorcerer!) He would of course have to deal with the waste heat/waste chaos.
If science advances in this world, a very open question, I'm sure Pen would follow along and try to work out even more clever sorcery as insights emerge.
Ta, L.
Good questions. Purify seawater, sure; it just needs evaporated and condensed, tho' if one is in/by the sea, the air should be damp enough to skip step one. Ice wine, yes. Break down water molecules, not sure. Heating/cooling/cooking, maybe on a very small scale. (Mustn't overheat the sorcerer!) He would of course have to deal with the waste heat/waste chaos.
If science advances in this world, a very open question, I'm sure Pen would follow along and try to work out even more clever sorcery as insights emerge.
Ta, L.
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