So what do you think governments and leaders, society and the people would do with infinite energy (without any pollution or radiation) if we magically found it?
Infinite Energy
Matthew Kelly
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Owen Adams
>magically find it
The Earth is negatively charged, carrying 500,000 Coulombs (C) of electric charge (500 kC),[2] and is at 300,000 volts (V), 300 kV,[3] relative to the positively charged ionosphere. There is a constant flow of electricity, at around 1350 amperes (A) [approximately 1100 A][3], and resistance of the Earth's atmosphere is around 220 Ohms.[3] This gives a power output of around 400 megawatts (MW), which is ultimately regenerated by the power of the Sun that affects the ionosphere, as well as the troposphere, causing thunderstorms. The electrical energy stored in the Earth's atmosphere is around 150 gigajoules (GJ).
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Xavier Hill
Immediately patent it and bury it.
Isaac Hughes
Is there any way of tapping into that?
Justin Bennett
Sadly, I think you are right. Or they would patent the tech and then sell electricity. The Comcast of power.
Chase Torres
Depends on who harnesses it first, if its the government gets it they are going to charge people for it at a rate slightly less than electricity, put all power companies out of business effectively taking the right of energy away from the people and likely bolster their militaries, if not simply annihilate every other soverign state and gain power over all people. If the people or a corperation get it first, the people will become infinitly self sustainable leaving the government to gradually dissolve, space exploration will explode and we'll be reaching intergalactic travel in several dozen generations, colonizing and mining everything in between. The apex of mankfest destiny.
Jack Lewis
Unless it was discovered/created by a benevolent independent entity (similar to the internet), it would be used to make an unholy amount of money while keeping the source of it's energy secret for as long as possible. Although, I believe the information would be leaked eventually.
In a perfect world we would utilize the tech to sew our wretched interstellar seed across the cosmos, or create an equally infinite simulated universe and become God ourselves.
William Cox
>not infinite
who cares
Jaxson Bell
Same way you tap into any power source, just 'put a probe' in two points of potential difference in the desired direction of flow.
Easier said than done but basically a network of resonators placed straticgically around 'dense points'/places of high activity, in the ionosphere, connect them all through a common, lets call it earth. Now one only need apply a load between the resonance device and the earth and you have a means of spending the stored capacitances. Its just knowing specific wavelengths and corresponding windings in transformers that becomes the big issue and this will differ greatly depending on where you are. And most would argue the need for use of superconductors to have any measure of efficiency.
>TLR
>stepdown cuircut from 300,000v 1100A DC at an highest oscolation of 65herts to [insert countries voltage, amperage
, and frequency].
Ryan Lee
It would however lead to the source of energy through gained understanding by practical experimentation of large scale charged particle/bodies suchxas the one we inhabit and can apply this practical knowledge gained to theory. There is no energy present in any body or mass other than that gained from its environment. EMR radiates from beyond even the fabric of space, if one can conceive a method of synthisising this radiation you have zero point energy.