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energy storage facilities like the frozen nitrogen
or hydrogen stations as slowly these batteries
that had been installed before the ban started
to fail. This, not surprisingly, increased energy
prices. The Greens could have just increased
the use of molten salt nuclear reactors, which
were really now only used when the demands
for energy was extremely high, but Sophie had
never liked the idea of fission reactors of any
kind because they created nuclear waste – even
if MS reactors produced less than the previous
fast reactors and some of it could be used for
other reasons – as it couldn’t be disposed of
properly for thousands and thousands of years.
There was another option though. In the
Twenty Twenties there had been a researcher
in Cambridge who had created an algae battery
that used photosynthesis to power a computer,
day AND night. Obviously powering just one
computer wasn’t particularly impressive at all,
but Sophie knew, from her studies, that a
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