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"[Science fiction is] anything that turns you and your social context, the social you, inside out."
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![]() This novel provides a fully realized version of a technology that is only just being explored today; on an average day, the tropical seas of Earth absorb solar energy equivalent to 250 billion barrels of oil.
Harvesting thermal energy from the ocean was first proposed in 1881 by Jacques Arsene d'Arsonval, a French physicist. The first demonstration unit to produce real net power was a closed-cycle plant in Hawaii; it created 15 kWe of net power.
Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion (OTEC) is a real technology in the process of being developed:
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'The pitiless M rays pierced Earth and steel and densest concrete as if they were so much transparent glass...'
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'Nanny is different,' Tom Fields murmured... 'she's not like a machine. She's like a person.'
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'We made a crude , small cell and were delighted - and, I admit, somewhat surprised - to find it worked.'
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'...we've promised him a generous pension from the royalties.'
Textiles That Harvest Energy And Store It
'The clothes and jewelery drew their tiny power requirements from her movements.'
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'At the end of each appendage's eight fingers there are tinier appendages...'
Drug To Regenerate Teeth In Humans
'We want to do something to help those who are suffering from tooth loss or absence,' said lead researcher Katsu Takahashi.
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