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I know about force multiplication. If you have a long enough arm you can theoretically generate any possible output force from any possible input force, at the expense of distance such that total work remains the same. Is there any similar way to multiply power? I've been thinking about this because of back to the future, when the doc needed to think of a way to generate over a gigawatt of power for any period of time and over any distance.

Basically, outside of harvesting thunderbolts or breaking into a power plant, the most power I can think of for one average person with access to a hardware store is from really big capacitor, and even then the craziest capacitors out there fall well short of a gigawatt.

If you had to make a gigawatt of power, for any time and any distance, and just had a normal income and access to amazon dot com and a hardware store, how would you do it? No lightning bolts allowed.

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What's a good book for learning formal logic?