Digital Times Early Morning News
Hot off the internet: Our Star reporter Rachel Keller, brings us new and interesting news bytes. The Green Gaia Energy Corporation’s spokesperson Brama Satturi issued a press release stating that Gaia had completed the first of its seven transoceanic power conduits. Theses sub-oceanic conduits will transfer the power from their Krakatau geothermal plant to a substation on the mainland of each continent. From there your normal power companies would be able to purchase power and distribute it to their customers.
Satturi warned against anyone attempting to enter the conduits as there are being used to transmit raw energy without the standard cabling. His best description of this process is likening it to ball or chain lightning. Sounds like quite a show if nothing else. Wonder if cable has rights to show the fireworks?
Guess we’ll be hearing more about that in the future. G’day Mates.
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Present-Day Technology
Geo-thermal power is usually harnessed to produce steam or super-heated steam which in turn is used to drive turbines and produce electricity. Even extrapolating the amount of energy that could be generated in the future it is difficult to imagine "pure energy" being transmitted. Maybe ordinary transmission lines or microwaves, with the latter being bounced off of satellite relay stations to overcome the earth's curvature. However, local geothermal sources, e.g. volcanoes or "hot rocks", in local areas would be far more economical than long distance transmission, not to mention all the birds being cooked as they flew through microwave concentrations.
Rachel shouldn't believe everything she's told, mate. Bullshit obviously hasn't become extinct in the digital future. Now THAT would be a great source of renewable energy,
Joanne
Veracious Versus Verisimilar
Sometimes reporters don't get it right. It's a hard fact of life. This story sounds a little suspect to me, and I'm a naive, trusting fool. Heh.
Keep at it though, Ms. Keller. Go after those stories. Just make sure you do a little research to verify their truthfulness. Okay? :)
Thanks.
- Terry
Terry Terry Terry
Oddly enough some people forget that in the story particulars, fiction as with all my stories is listed. Now on to the true gist of the issue, primarily dear readers you need to pay more attention to the story. I quite plainly spoke of sub-oceanic conduits very difficult for anything much less a bird being fried in one, as to the possibility or impossibility of transmitting electricity freely through the air. I recommend you pay a little more attention to your history lessons, in the late 1800’s Nikola Tesla invented the Tesla coil thus proving to the world this practice is indeed possible. With the advances in science and the amount of power generated by Gaia’s plant I don’t see any problems with sending the electricity any distance quite safely using their sub-oceanic conduit system.
Then again for all you nonbelievers we’ll just cut your power ;)
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Rachel Anne
Nothing in Life is Free; if the cost is not monetary it will be physical, emotional, or spiritual.
Rachel Anne
Fiction needs love too
Hey. I know this is a fictional world you've created. I'm just considering the possibilities. :p
I've read a bit about Nikola Tesla and I even owned a Tesla coil at one time, so I ain't completely ign'rant. The only power transmission I read about was generating very high voltages and sending the power through the air, not through cables. He tried building a power transmitting tower at one time but I'm not sure if it was ever finished.
I still say beware of fishy stories in any world, fictional as well as real. :)
- Terry