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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)
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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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[–] buckykat@hexbear.net 3 points 1 month ago

40 square meters of YBCO sounds even more daunting than 4000 square meters of copper in some ways. Might have to ask them kindly generator aliens for some better superconductors while they're at it.