"Light waves are energy. Sound waves are energy. Heck, everything in our universe is energy vibrating at different speeds. Electrons are buzzing all over the place. There must be some way to tap it without blowing ourselves up. There has to be some way to manipulate it to our advantage. Somebody is bound to figure it out sooner or later."
Heck is right. We already tap into this existing energy alot. We can collect light from the sun and convert into electricty or use as stored heat. We can tap into rivers flowing by force of gravity and convert into mechanical motion or electricity. We can tap into geothermal sources of heat or tap into wind and convert into electricity. We can tap into heat produced by nuclear reactions and convert into electricity. The list goes on and on. We need more work being done on better battery storage technology so we can make better personal use of the energy that is out there.
The problem is one of power (releasing energy fast enough to do practical work. The only way would be to collect and store the low-level bits of energy that occur in large quanities (like that of sunlight) and then releasing it fast enough to do practical work.
In a perfect world of science the ideal solution would be to design a system that could collect the low-level energy, say sunlight (the free but low power stuff) over a very large area (lets say thousands of square miles) collected over a long period of time (say 6-9 months) using millions of small lightweight battery-like devices.
The devices must be cheap and use only chemicals that are cheap and widely available (water, for instance), and built of very common materials that are also cheap and widely available (LOL dirt, or sand would be perfect!). After they have filled up with the energy they could be collected and sent to a processing facility for conversion and release of their energy.
The storage devices would be used only once, but they would incorporate the ability to use part of their collected energy to replicate dozens more empty devices to be used over the next cycle!!!
Heck, since we are dreaming anyway, lets make it so that we can eat them as well!! Why not?? And also build houses from them!
No scientist would even dare dream up such a wildly exotic technology because it would be just too incredible to think possible.
wow!!
Good thing, then, that God went ahead and designed it for us.