Ahem, it’s canon. Not cannon.
Well that backfired.
You forget about the displacer. How exactly is that tiny thing supposed to replicate the entire Lambda care. You’d need a HUGE amount of energy to open a portal (I know this stuff, don’t question me), and some Uranium-238 isn’t going to cut it.
I think most of the lambda core had to do with TARGETING. Opening a portal to someplace random actually wasn’t that hard, but rather targeting a specific location so that you could teleport safely was.
Essentially every time you used the displacer, you stood a 99% chance of teleporting someplace that would kill you, but since you’re the main character of the game, you beat the odds.
The Displacer channels the calories from all the doughnuts that Shephard stole from Otis to open the portals, obviously.
Hey, they put Otis in there for a reason.
Keep in mind that the Lambda Core was intentionally mirrored at the end of HL2. Now, seeing as that was a huge, energy porducing dark energy reactor for opening a portal, and various other reasons, I believe that portal technology utilizes wormholes, not quantum entanglement. Wormholes use a TON of energy, which is the basis for my statement.
Make sense?
I sometimes wonder why that thing has dewclaws.
You should have seen the fucking dewclaws on my old Great Pyrenees. They were almost knee high and she could actually move them :fffuuu:
Wasn’t it mentioned somewhere that the Combine use highly inefficient technology to freaking drill huge tunnels between universes?
No, it just takes a while to charge, and that was simply for gameplay purposes.
SCIENCE
No, it was acid. GldSrc models fool another person.
So are you saying long charge times aren’t related to increased energy usage?
Mossman mentioned that the combine portals use “tremendous” power and then can only tunnel from universe to universe. the xen relay system that the rebels have uses far less energy and can go from point to point on earth. “if they only knew what we’re doing with entanglement”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCLYCA6PGDI
after 30 seconds…
Looks like blood to me. At any rate, they’re not green by any means.
Who says acid can’t be red? 
Acid is typically clear, actually, since it’s a compound dissolved in water, it retains the appearance of water.
The Combine and Lambda core portals required a lot of energy to operate. How Kleiner’s teleporter did not I don’t understand, though it may be that local teleportation needs less power, or they had developed a better method. I don’t actually know what was special about the Xen relay ‘emulation’ method.
I’m not actually sure about the one in Nova Prospekt. It was a modified Combine portal, so it certainly had the capability to do so, but I don’t know whether it actually needed all the energy or just wouldn’t activate unless it had full power.
It could be this:
-The Lambda core Xen portal may have been difficult to operate, thus the long portal generation period.
-The Combine, and possibly Lambda core portals needed a lot of energy because they used an inefficient method of generating portals.
-By the time of HL2, Humans had found a better method, and didn’t need so much power.
They keep saying that they teleport using quantum entanglement.
Gonarch comes to mind.
Though his corrosive stuff was white. That could be “clear” considering GoldSrc effects.
Well, that was mentioned ONCE in direct reference to the recent human teleports. The earlier portals behaved a lot more like wormholes than entanglement, with the added benefit of being possible. :retard:
I suppose it’s still technically entanglement, though. I’m probably overthinking this.
Human teleports use science. Combine teleports use a lot more science.