You own an electricity generator (RAR!)

[Ryan Thunder]

...what about the Terawatt guys?

I'm not sure there are any systems that could currently handle that kind of power from such a small object.

I mean, I'm pretty sure any material you hooked it up to would just melt or vapourize.

[Darmalus]

...what about the Terawatt guys?

Does anyone even have a hundred thousand posts? Darth Wong has about 69 thousand.

[lordofchange13]

...what about the Terawatt guys?

Does anyone even have a hundred thousand posts? Darth Wong has about 69 thousand.

I assume since it was put up there in the first place that someone has reached that number.

[Eternal_Freedom]

Presumably if you had a Tw cube and sold it you'd simply get another 3 orders of magniude in annual income. In other words, a trillion per year. Of course, there is no way you could actually make that much. I doubt if even the GW cubes could make you a billion. I woudl think people will want a bulk discount of some sort.

[Malagar]

...what about the Terawatt guys?

Does anyone even have a hundred thousand posts? Darth Wong has about 69 thousand.

No, Darth Wong has the highest post count, followed by The Yosemite Bear (33 k) and Sea Skimmer (32 k).

[Enigma]

What is so special about the colour of the lines?

[Darth Tanner]

Even if you had a terawatt source and magic cables able to handle the insanely high level of power coming out of it it'd be impossible to rig that into the grid, the largest of power stations is only 7gw or so and that’s split over multiple individual reactors with massive amounts of hardware to handle the power flow. A power source on that scale could never be run at anywhere near its full capacity. I’m sure you could sell it to CERN for making anti matter or something though.

[Zixinus]

Actually the most likely scenario about this would be that the cubes would be taken from all the SDN members once it got out that these things exist.

The kilowatt guys might be spared or theirs might be simply brought. Those with gigawatts or even megawatts however are going to have their cubes taken away by more violent means (if necessary).

A reliable means of producing electricity in large quantities is a pretty desired item. The list of governments or even corporations can easily extend: militaries that want tanks or warships to be powered by these things, energy-poor (or very energy-hungry) governments willing to take risks to get the electricity or even rich idiots that must have it.

Can the cubes be disassembled? Because I am certain that in slightly more ideal case, research would be attempted to replicate these things.

Also, just how exactly would the cubes output power? Does it sense if I wave a connector to it and magically forms the appropriate socket? How does the grounding work?

EDIT: Remember that with the terawatt cubes, that's the maximum power output. Which means that it can probably output smaller quantities.

[Ahriman238]

What is so special about the colour of the lines?

Ev'rybuddy' knowz da red wunz go fasta.

I power my own home. One less bill in the mail. I'm not sure how I'd go about selling any excess.

[Simon_Jester]

The trick with the more powerful cubes would be to get them off your own hands in exchange for some reasonable sum of money- negotiate with someone quickly in an aboveboard way and get a contract that will stand up in court. If that doesn't mean you get a 2.4 million dollar a year income, such a pity, but it's better than nothing and having to worry about being burgled all the time.

[bilateralrope]

A reliable means of producing electricity in large quantities is a pretty desired item. The list of governments or even corporations can easily extend: militaries that want tanks or warships to be powered by these things, energy-poor (or very energy-hungry) governments willing to take risks to get the electricity or even rich idiots that must have it.

Why would they go straight to violence when money works and is completely legal ?

[Zixinus]

A reliable means of producing electricity in large quantities is a pretty desired item. The list of governments or even corporations can easily extend: militaries that want tanks or warships to be powered by these things, energy-poor (or very energy-hungry) governments willing to take risks to get the electricity or even rich idiots that must have it.

Why would they go straight to violence when money works and is completely legal ?

Or blackmail. Or harassment. Or any number of unpleasent ways for dirty people to get something they want.

[Simon_Jester]

As I said, if you're worried about that, get it off your hands, to someone whose reputation for probity is more valuable to them than the cube- or at least, who is willing to spend money to make money. Most businesses are, or they wouldn't be businesses.

[Eulogy]

Or blackmail. Or harassment. Or any number of unpleasent ways for dirty people to get something they want.

Until they get assassinated by somebody with the moolah to do so, thanks to the cube.

[Purple]

A reliable means of producing electricity in large quantities is a pretty desired item. The list of governments or even corporations can easily extend: militaries that want tanks or warships to be powered by these things, energy-poor (or very energy-hungry) governments willing to take risks to get the electricity or even rich idiots that must have it.

Why would they go straight to violence when money works and is completely legal ?

I think it is because he is operating on the very sound principal that most of those with high end cubes would not reasonably want to take up the first offer for a very small percentage of the income they could conceivably have out of it. It's like discovering an oil well in your back yard and the next day someone comes over with $10000 in cash and offers to buy it. Would you? And what happens if you don't agree?

[Sea Skimmer]

I'm not sure there are any systems that could currently handle that kind of power from such a small object.

I mean, I'm pretty sure any material you hooked it up to would just melt or vapourize.

That's okay, just keep it bathed in a giant tub of liquid metal and use the liquid metal to run a thermal power plant. A really really big thermal power plant

[Grumman]

...what about the Terawatt guys?

I'm not sure there are any systems that could currently handle that kind of power from such a small object.

I mean, I'm pretty sure any material you hooked it up to would just melt or vapourize.

Superconductors? If nothing else, just get as much power out of it that you can, and hold the excess capacity over the heads of the scientific community as a way to encourage further research.

[Zaune]

Show the cube to the guy behind this website and pay him to design and build a continuous-beam laser cannon powered by it. (Even if I'm sacrificing half its power to run the cooling system, that's still a lot of zap.) Roof-mount it on an Army-surplus Snatch Land Rover, commit a few armoured car heists to fund some secondary armament and pledge myself to the Black Bloc in the heavy fire-support role.