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A Figure Like That<br />

FIFTY-SEVEN<br />

The exhibition of the algae batteries in the<br />

prime minister’s constituents' home had been a<br />

great success. As these were still in their<br />

prototype stage, Sophie Bunning had been<br />

quite shocked at how well everything had<br />

worked out. After the owners had cut off the<br />

whole house from the mains, every device that<br />

needed power from the external electrical<br />

source had stopped working and the lights<br />

went out, but in ten seconds the dish washer<br />

returned to its cycle, the resting red lights of all<br />

the devices that were on standby turned back<br />

on and the LCD bulbs up on the ceiling glowed<br />

again. Sophie looked at the touch screen on the<br />

front of the closest battery, it showed, in watts,<br />

how much electricity it was using to power the<br />

house and, even though it was early in the<br />

evening, Sophie noticed that the battery was<br />

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