" He began to write some notes down for Mark.
"Must take a lot of power to run your operation here, Mr. Vly,"
observed Mark while he waited for Montezuma to finish writing. "Don't
you have to conserve energy?"
"Haven't had to conserve energy since I developed a new process for
drawing energy directly from the sun."
"But out here the solar radiation is so weak. You can't get much energy
from solar panels, no matter how efficient-certainly not enough to run
your machines without some sort of supplement."
"I don't use solar panels any more, Mr. Seaton. I mine energy from the
sun directly with an entirely new process. I can pull in and store
about four gigawatts. Gives me all I need and plenty left over."
"Four gigawatts?"
"Four gigawatts. That's a four with nine zeroes after it."
Mark almost shouted. "I know how much it is! Mr. Vly! You amaze me!
There's nothing like that anywhere else in the Solar System! Nobody has
anything like that, nobody! Not even Starlight Enterprise! You could
make a fortune if you sell your design!!"
"Really?" said Mr. Vly, lifting his eyebrows slightly, handing him the
sheet with his notes on it. "Excuse me a moment while I write that
down, so the next time I want to turn my whole life over to lawyers and
businessmen I'll know just what to do.
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