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Welcome to the sixth decade of the Century of Wonders.
A planet-wide grid is being built to distribute power to all regions of the world. At the same time, the Lunar Asimov Array is solving the energy crisis as the Moon-wrapping carpet of nanotech-aided photovoltaics keeps growing, its growth fuelled by self-replicating Drexlers on site, beaming hundreds of terawatts of power to Earth through towering microwave lasers. The Drexlers are not swarms of nanoscopic, self-replicating, socializing, intelligent robots, rather; they are macroscopic robots feeding trillions of atoms into macroscopic machines that hold nanoscopic telescoping booms that grab atoms from a sea of parts underneath and assemble them.
But the grid needs a special component: A room-temperature superconductor is needed for efficiency, to prevent power being lost en route, so all of the power from the photovoltaics in the Sahara to reach New York, zero loss. And the only known superconductor so far is a Carbon-Platinium alloy developed in the last few decades, assembled with atomic precision, its structure designed to allow the resistance-less conduction of electric currents. And where to obtain Platinium? The ocean floor that had fed the weakened economy of the now-fragmented China could not provide it, so it had to be extracted from the asteroids.

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