OK, if I understand this, energy is sent off to travel the earth at a rate of 84/1000's sec, or about 12 times a sec around the earth, and returns "almost without any loss of energy".
If it does this once, without loss of energy, it seems to me it would continue indefinitely (until whatever mild energy loss overcomes), making it a virtual perpetual energy wave. I'm guessing it would also slow a small amount with that little bit of energy loss, too.
How would one tap into this energy? Like to run/recharge your cell phone?
To maintain the energy you would have to add to it with every cycle. The loss is still there, nothing is absolutely lossless, and the total loss would naturally increase as the total charge increased. I imagine this would either hit a point where the loss becomes so great with each cycle that you cannot feasibly add any more than what was lost with each pass. Either that, or it splits the earth at a certain threshold.
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Wouldn't something like Kinetic Bombardment weapons going online be much more likely?
Without knowing much about their functional ability, I would guess that it would be fairly straightforward to launch successive projectiles 17 seconds apart with each impact creating significant seismic waves?
Moreover, wouldn't a system like this nullify worldwide ballistic missile capabilities - sorta "unifying" all under a single, omnicapable superpower?
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Forget now where, but read it is similar to communications used for submarines (when under, I presume). I guess they've long ago resolved that issue. Last I heard (dino here), submerged comms were not possible, but was some time ago, not updated since.
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ELF and ULF fixed that.
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Thanks, will be looking those up.