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Hypothetical SciFi question: could infrastructure be built that would allow the ENTIRE EARTH to be powered by ONE really big power plant? (hexbear.net)

submitted 3 weeks ago by SovietBeerTruckOperator@hexbear.net to c/askchapo@hexbear.net

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Scenario: Aliens gift humanity some mega power plant that runs off a black hole or some shit. Maybe it's a quantum time battery or perpetual motion machine, whatever.

If we plopped it somewhere on Earth, could humanity build infrastructure across the globe to provide everyone with near unlimited clean electricity?

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[–] Hermes@hexbear.net 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

need a bus bar with a cross sectional area of something like 4,000 square meters

At what voltage? China has 1.2MV lines already, and if power were free that number could surely go higher even with efficiency losses.

[–] buckykat@hexbear.net 2 points 3 weeks ago

I was assuming 765kV lines