Question Feeding the Energizers

Ok this one has been walking in my head for awhile now.

Energizers need to eat a huge amount of food to sustain their appetite. By now (2nd Gen) don't you think Whateley's faculty and/or bio-devisor students must have figured out a kind of food-based solution? Doesn't it make more sense for them to create something energizers can eat so they can FINALLY be satisfied? It would be much more time/cost effective than making 200 ribeye steaks for a handfull of students.

Maybe one of those high-calorie mass-gainer shakes like this one? Perhaps it would be avail only at Whateley or avail commercially so they won't have to order an embarrassing amount of food or go to several diff restaurants.
www.bodybuilding.com/store/dym/supermega...ECBF78709C1931D047BC

...or am I just taking all the writers' fun out of it?

cheers

One of the things that messes with the pure logic types that overlook some of the mystic classes is the non-linear nature of the classes being taught. For example; it is entirely possible for a student in mystic algebra to go through a series of complex computations, arrive at an answer that is mathematically incorrect, and still have their spell work.

Likewise, it seems that for energizers it's not about the calories that are consumed; your basic energy blast would use more calories of energy and you could safely consume in a single day. Rather there is an extra dimensional "something" that is powering these feats, but the Energizer has to do his part.

So it is not so much but how many calories were eaten, but does the Energizer "feel" like they ate enough.

This of course, is one of the great debates of the universe.

Ah yes. By 2016 we'll all be eating food pills...

Hang on, how did that prediction work out again...??

Astrodragon wrote: Ah yes. By 2016 we'll all be eating food pills...

Hang on, how did that prediction work out again...??

I keep my food pills in the glove compartment of my flying car.

Jerky bag of holding, the perfect gift for energizers everywhere

If there were such food, what chance it was invented by Jobe?

Would you trust it?

annachie wrote: If there were such food, what chance it was invented by Jobe?

Would you trust it?

I can see it now.
"Uhm, where do you get all this beef from without increasing tuition cost?"
"Oh, that comes from regenerating cows which Princess Jobe of Karedonia created, she is..."
*sees student run off leaving a dust cloud behind them and screaming*

annachie wrote: If there were such food, what chance it was invented by Jobe?

Would you trust it?

while Jobe is tricky at times she also is quite professional, so long as there was a conract and FDA approval.... That said, I would also want to make sure none of my family has ever gotten on her bad side before eating, might not be lethal but it'd be damn uncomfortable

Astrodragon wrote: Ah yes. By 2016 we'll all be eating food pills...

Hang on, how did that prediction work out again...??

Soylent is pretty close, and you can get "food bricks" that have all of the necessary nutrients in one piece, but you can't get past the mass problem in the real world and our brains are so hardwired to eat that most people go a little bit crazy if they try to move to just taking in these supplements. They basically turn into cartoon characters who see food everywhere.

Well the early "cubes and tubes" variety of astronaut food may come closer if you think about it, the trick to condensing nutrients is dehydration, but to the point where they can still be consumed as is, (ie various Jerky meats) the trick to making someone less hungry is starch, carbohydrates and liquids, there's a reason why restaurants provide bread roles, tortilla chips and the like before you decide on your meal. Still a higher food intake is a higher food intake, I wouldn't be surprised if WU Nasa's culinary division (yes that's a thing) has been working hard at figuring out how one would sustain an Energizer in space, as one of those "made for space helps on Earth" projects.

My two bits, comments are welcome.

Whateley probably has a bunch of meat growth vats or 3D meat printing facilities hidden away somewhere. Whether the biodevisors tend them is open to debate. It would give a new meaning to the words 'Mystery Meat' and 'Roast Whatsit'. The processes involved would definitely be saleable though. What Jobe might do to something like this is probably too horrific to imagine. Remember the tumor cattle.

As for plants, a lot of progress is being made in vertical farming , growing plants indoors in stacks of trays lit by (purple) LED lights and drip-fed. A volume the size of Arena 99 might be enough to keep most people in veggies. Even if the biodevisors are kept away, their mechanist classmates might supply tending, harvesting and processing hardware.

FuzzyBoots wrote:

Astrodragon wrote: Ah yes. By 2016 we'll all be eating food pills...

Hang on, how did that prediction work out again...??

Soylent is pretty close, and you can get "food bricks" that have all of the necessary nutrients in one piece, but you can't get past the mass problem in the real world and our brains are so hardwired to eat that most people go a little bit crazy if they try to move to just taking in these supplements. They basically turn into cartoon characters who see food everywhere.

Incidentally, I still can't believe that somebody thought that naming a food product "Soylent" was a good idea. I mean, at least it's not green, but still...

Arcanist Lupus wrote:
Incidentally, I still can't believe that somebody thought that naming a food product "Soylent" was a good idea. I mean, at least it's not green, but still...

^_^ Ah, well, it's a bit of a Genius Bonus in that the controversy over the original Soylent, back in the Harrison story, where the name came from its components of Soy and Lentils.

Dreamer wrote:

annachie wrote: If there were such food, what chance it was invented by Jobe?

Would you trust it?

I can see it now.
"Uhm, where do you get all this beef from without increasing tuition cost?"
"Oh, that comes from regenerating cows which Princess Jobe of Karedonia created, she is..."
*sees student run off leaving a dust cloud behind them and screaming*

I seem to remember it being mentioned that Jobe got into trouble for an attempt to increase the meat production of cattle. I think there was some mention of the beasts extra meat being cancerous in nature. This was before he even entered Whateley I believe.

John.

rubberjohn wrote:

Dreamer wrote:

annachie wrote: If there were such food, what chance it was invented by Jobe?

Would you trust it?

I can see it now.
"Uhm, where do you get all this beef from without increasing tuition cost?"
"Oh, that comes from regenerating cows which Princess Jobe of Karedonia created, she is..."
*sees student run off leaving a dust cloud behind them and screaming*

I seem to remember it being mentioned that Jobe got into trouble for an attempt to increase the meat production of cattle. I think there was some mention of the beasts extra meat being cancerous in nature. This was before he even entered Whateley I believe.

John.

He provided the cows to a starving country, because the cows could survive on the sparse grass, and the tumors grew quickly and could be harvested without killing the cows. His uncle objected because of the low quality of the beef. (This is in the shopping trip to NYC with She-Beast and friends.)

and the UN charged him/her with war crimes because of it.

annachie wrote: and the UN charged him/her with war crimes because of it.

Actually...

Crimes against Humanity, in relation to the atrocities committed by the Chiruwi regime in Tikdoshe.

Yeah, I never did understand that. Just because the meat was cancer didn't make it carcinogenic or anything. As long as it was properly cooked and all the cells in it where dead it's all just protein right?

What's the big deal?

Phoenix Spiritus wrote: Yeah, I never did understand that. Just because the meat was cancer didn't make it carcinogenic or anything. As long as it was properly cooked and all the cells in it where dead it's all just protein right?

What's the big deal?

It's all politics. A way to get at Gizmatic, etc.

That and there are plenty of people who are squicked by bio-engineered food anyway (see all of the complaints about GMOs in our world), the idea of genetically engineering an animal to cause cancer which you then eat? Which was created by a known mutant mad scientist? That's a no sale all the way.

Isodecan wrote: That and there are plenty of people who are squicked by bio-engineered food anyway (see all of the complaints about GMOs in our world), the idea of genetically engineering an animal to cause cancer which you then eat? Which was created by a known mutant mad scientist? That's a no sale all the way.

You aren't watching your citizenry starve to death.

Valentine wrote:

Phoenix Spiritus wrote: Yeah, I never did understand that. Just because the meat was cancer didn't make it carcinogenic or anything. As long as it was properly cooked and all the cells in it where dead it's all just protein right?

What's the big deal?

It's all politics. A way to get at Gizmatic, etc.

The thing about that is it was the politicians that stopped it from being used... did they ever once ask the intended recipients of the meat if they'd rather starve or eat nutritious food from a questionable source?

Valentine wrote:

Isodecan wrote: That and there are plenty of people who are squicked by bio-engineered food anyway (see all of the complaints about GMOs in our world), the idea of genetically engineering an animal to cause cancer which you then eat? Which was created by a known mutant mad scientist? That's a no sale all the way.

You aren't watching your citizenry starve to death.

True, although much like today's GMO opponents, they'd probably still take the moral high ground if it's someone else's citizens starving.

After reading the OP, the first thing I thought of was the recipe for moonshine in the game Fallout, which includes fission batteries to give it a little extra kick. Nuka-Cola Quantum also came to mind.