[Siobhan]

Nein, darling. I did not accuse you of bringing up Star Trek. But there is part of the problem exposed. And explaining anything further on this subject would end in your savaging of what I had said without your ever thinking beyond the tiny little frame of reference you have received through your education. I should rather explain the merits of British imperial rule to a Mau Mau insurrectionist thank you.

For the sake of closure, the power for such a generator in conventional thinking would come from the sun, forces and elements carried in the solar wind, and the earth's magnetosphere in isolation and in conjuction with the solar wind. The obvious platforms for harnessing such forces, again thinking in conventional terms, are orbital - both near Earth and eccentric. But we are not simply talking about conventional approaches or the little tinker toys of college physics or engineering courses. We are not talking about the stuff of published papers and little professors eagerly seeking tenure. We are talking about what has remained under development and underground, in the major powers, since the time of the Manhattan Project.

Enjoy.