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Re: Someday "everything" will be powered by...by gregor42 (Parson) |
on Jan 13, 2006 at 15:20 UTC ( [id://523005]=note: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
Since convergence is the main issue with getting everything running on the same stuff - I'm going to assume that this isn't going to take place until well into the future. (It's actually far better to use more diverse sources of energy to prevent general scarcity issues, but that's another conversation.) Therefore going into the future we look at sci-fi since engineers need to get their ideas from somewhere. Thus by canon we have:
Interesting that none of them picked up on the work of Nikola Tesla who suggested that the Earth's magnetic field could be tapped to supply almost limitless amounts of electricity. True or not, it would have made for interesting stories. appended:
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