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"I myself feel that our country, for whose Constitution I fought in a just war, might as well have been invaded by Martians and body snatchers."
- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
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| Batacitor | ||
| A storage device for electricity that could be charged in a very short time. |
| A giant step-down transformer of aluminum took the energy three times a day, sent it through Brobdignagian aluminum wires to a two-story device known as a batacitor. This was a late-twentieth-century electronic discovery that could accept hundreds of kilovolts in a hundredth of a microsecond and could discharge it at any rate from a tenth of a volt to one hundred kilovolts... |
| Technovelgy from The Fabulous Riverboat,
by Philip Jose Farmer. Published by Putnam in 1971 Additional resources -
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