{"id":1271,"date":"2026-03-23T06:00:38","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T06:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/?p=1271"},"modified":"2026-03-22T06:51:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T06:51:16","slug":"chapter-8-as-good-as-gold-062","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/2026\/03\/23\/chapter-8-as-good-as-gold-062\/","title":{"rendered":"Chapter 8 As Good as Gold 062"},"content":{"rendered":"<hr width=\"100%\" \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/2026\/03\/22\/chapter-8-as-good-as-gold-061\/\">Previous<\/a> &#8211; Book1 Page62 \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/2026\/03\/24\/chapter-8-as-good-as-gold-063\/\">Next<\/a><\/p>\n<hr width=\"100%\" \/>\n<p>\u201cWait a minute! Hydroelectric generators? They\u2019re big heavy things aren\u2019t they?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo! Not now! Well they\u2019re still big, but we\u2019ve manged to get them down to roughly the size of a wooden chair, like the ones in school. Faraday wheeled one of the generators up to the brook, and I wheeled the other one. We ran the power line 50 metres back to the works, lowered the mill wheels into the stream, and bingo! Electricity!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Questioning her own sanity, she continues, \u201cOK \u2026 and what are \u2026 what are load balancers?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Excited, NutJob\u2019s speech becomes a little faster, and is delivered at a higher pitch.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne generator was better than the other! We harnessed their output together, but the phases weren\u2019t the same. The presses ran fast, then slow, then fast again. Too fast, and too slow. Faraday said the cycles were out of sync. Sometimes amplifying the current, and sometimes almost cancelling it out. We need to balance them. He knows what a load balancer is. He says there are massive ones in the Leven dam. If we want a smaller one we\u2019re going to have to build it ourselves. From scratch. We just need to get our hands on the right components.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8212;o&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>By the time the cavalry returns from Ormskirk it\u2019s mid afternoon on Saturday, and all CandiCrush wants to do is have a rest.<\/p>\n<p>KristalClear is keen to get a full update on the news and is disappointed, though not surprised, to learn that nothing much happened.<\/p>\n<p>CandiCrush changes the subject. Raising her right index finger in front of her, pointing at nothing in particular other than the sky, she uses her strictest head teacher voice and says, \u201cno dangly things!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s what Mr Rafone says!\u201d responds KristalClear.<\/p>\n<hr width=\"100%\" \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/2026\/03\/22\/chapter-8-as-good-as-gold-061\/\">Previous<\/a> &#8211; Book1 Page62 \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/2026\/03\/24\/chapter-8-as-good-as-gold-063\/\">Next<\/a><\/p>\n<hr width=\"100%\" \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Previous &#8211; Book1 Page62 \u2013 Next \u201cWait a minute! Hydroelectric generators? They\u2019re big heavy things aren\u2019t they?\u201d \u201cNo! Not now! Well they\u2019re still big, but we\u2019ve manged to get them down to roughly the size of a wooden chair, like the ones in school. Faraday wheeled one of the generators up to the brook, and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/2026\/03\/23\/chapter-8-as-good-as-gold-062\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Chapter 8 As Good as Gold 062&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[4],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1271"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1271"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1271\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1306,"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1271\/revisions\/1306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}