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Wouldn't it be cheaper just to whip a cable over to Australia?
by semiotagonal 7y ago
Wouldn't it be cheaper just to whip a cable over to Australia?
- lazyguy2 7y agoWe could bore a series of holes through the center of the planet and then use gigantic orbital crystals to create a array of lazers to focus the sun's light through to the dark side of the planet.
- jjoonathan 7y agoI'm a fan of using magical heat-producing rocks to boil water and spin turbines, but admittedly that has fallen a bit out of fashion.
- MiroF 7y agoThis could be nuclear or coal
- jjoonathan 7y agoThere's an argument to be had that burning coal doesn't count as magic while fission does, but in any case, good catch, let me amend that to: magic heat-producing rocks that don't fill the atmosphere with dinosaur squeezings.
- thinkloop 7y agoIt's temperature would have to be maintained around absolute zero to compensate for the transmission loss, for that we would need a continuous source of cheap, clean energy.
- k__ 7y agoWould it? I thought about a bunch of small satellites with mirror foil.