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A Figure Like That<br />

this is one of the reasons why there was less<br />

than a few tons of it that was in use in the<br />

whole world. fipher has a special chemical<br />

proficiency which allows it to absorb<br />

energy at a ninety-nine-point eight percent<br />

efficiency and, with extra special techniques<br />

that IDP had developed, a small molecule<br />

of it could attract a wave of energy, like<br />

heat or light, from a hundred miles away. If<br />

focused properly one gram of fipher could<br />

absorb a peta.joule of energy which was<br />

enough to power the city of London for a<br />

whole week. When Jamie had discovered<br />

this element in that scuba dive all those<br />

decades ago he had made sure that<br />

InDuePower had a monopoly of the<br />

chemical and he quickly wrote up a<br />

contract with the inhabitants on the islands<br />

close to the coral and made sure that they<br />

became their own country which had an<br />

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