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Fun to think of a future civilization 1000 years from now getting an alert to change a battery, and then all the effort it would take them to look through ancient documents to figure out the process :)

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This talk of permanent batteries reminds me of the little power spheres in the final Foundation series by Asimov et al.

Foundation tech was all nuclear, which is sort of quaint now. Everything nuclear was magic back then.

Or Heinlein’s “Shipstones.”

Stargate, zero point module.

Absolutely plausible scenario provided we somehow get the world's total energy consumption down to 100 microwatts.

Well, just a single key system needs to be running on 100 microwatts for this scenario to occur.

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