How bout you figure how to generate the electricity and I'll figure how to get it the fuck down to earth.

Quiet possible. You would need a way to transmit that energy however. Plus calculating your losses, how much money it would take to run it, etc., etc. Yep logistics kill everything.

WHOAAAA... speaking of magnets and sattelites, I just had an epiphany.

Imagine if the entire EARTH was your power generator, and you had a satellite rotating around it's magnetic field at a ridiculous speed... could that not generate "free" electricity???

Oh shit, I'm gonna be RICH when I sell this idea to NASA!!!

"What we have developed is a way to construct magnetic fields so that when you travel round the magnetic fields, starting and stopping at the same position, you have gained energy," McCarthy said.

Isn't that what your every-day basic turbine generating plant does? You know... rotating around magnetic fields to produce electricity? In fact, isn't that the same as your household gas-powered generator works? If they mean they'll just sew batteries into your clothes and place giant permanent magnets all along the sidewalks so that when you walk down the street you've essentially gained "free" energy... well then, that sounds kinda stupid.

But if they've come up with something that's actually ground-breaking... well then, they are fucking brazillianaires in the making. If this shit's legit, they will be the richest people to ever walk this planet.

I still say we set up giant solar-collecting sattelites and beam the power down to earth through microwave. I'm serious- that would solve a lot of problems. One 15-mile solar-collecting station could power New York City in its entirety (or the whole state of Connecticut). And that figure was based off of 1970s solar technology which is nowhere near as efficient as our current solar collecting models.

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Depending on the power output per "generator" and the energy input neede to make them they might be good if there is a net gain, eventually. Have to look into it I guess. The generation of energy by forcing water thru thin ceramic cappilaries is also another form of clean energy. Low amperage and voltage though. Could be a while until this is developed into a useful form.

Free Energy!!:

The company, Steorn, says its discovery is based on the interaction of magnetic fields and allows the production of clean, free and constant energy -- a concept that challenges one of the basic rules of physics.

It claims the technology can be used to supply energy for virtually all devices, from mobile phones to cars.

Steorn issued its challenge through an advertisement in the Economist magazine this week quoting Ireland's Nobel prize-winning author George Bernard Shaw who said that "all great truths begin as blasphemies".

None of that problem where I work. We have a "office mom" who will bust your balls if she finds out you did something wrong. Main reason I don't label my drawers off the layers of hell anymore.