What are some ways a civilization could gain infinite energy?

>>54536375
>Use human souls for power
>Find alien technology
>Be patroned by a god
>Have a time gate that siphons energy directly from the creation event of the universe

Or, you know, you could just do it the boring DnD way and go "LOL LEVEL 9 SPELL".

>>54536506
The time gate one, isn't that detrimental to everyone involved?


What kind of crazy bull crap can a society with infinite energy do besides replicate everything they need?

have then gain energy from a sun or a black hole or something

>find a physical loophole that actually works

>>54536661
I was thinking about "batteries" that had perpetual motion machines that exploited the laws in the quantum realm.

Is that stupid?

>>54536375
Magic
Thaumaturgy
Technosorcery

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>>54536375
>a stable pathway to a dimension of pure energy
Idiot. First off, dimensions aren't infinite. Second, there's no such thing as "pure energy".

>>54536506
>Have a time gate that siphons energy directly from the creation event of the universe
Great way to unmake yourself from existence, crazy dude.

>>54536624
>sun or black hole
Neither of those has infinite energy. Both will become nothing.

The real answer is you need something that is 100% efficient at energy transformation, so they'll never run out of energy since they recycle all of it. THAT's infinite energy.

Alternately, power of emotions. Incubator, go!

>>54537054
A dimension of shortcharged metal so large that not even the creation of atoms can diminish it

>>54537084
Supercharged*

>>54537054
>being pedantic to look smart

Simply ebin

>>54537084
Discharge of electrons means you'll run out of electrons eventually.

Or the potential difference between the two dimensions will eventually become zero, reducing the electricity flow to nil.

Infinity isn't "really big". It's "doesn't fucking stop".

>>54537187
Nigga if some GM asks for an infinite source of energy and he uses some of these ideas, if some smug pedant on the internet can make them seem stupid with a few words you better believe that their players are going to call them out on it too.

I'd settle for "effectively limitless" or "immeasurable" energy, OP. Infinite is not easy.

>>54537415
Technically, dimensions can have different laws of physics than this one, imagine a dimension that just makes electrons. It would be utterly impossible for us to comprehend, but such a device could provide infinite power

>>54536375
Find a way to decrease total entropy.

>>54536375
>What are some ways a civilization could gain infinite energy?
There isn't any, that we know about. Simplifying there is fixed amount of energy in the universe that is getting lower and lower leading to death of universe.

But if you do not want to be bound by our current understanding of physic then magic is the answer.
Open portal to plane of infinite energy and you are done with it.

Unless we are talking of nearly infinite energy.
Then there are options.
Stable fusion may do it for us, for a time in reasonable time frame.
But as civilization grows, previous near infinite source of energy becomes irrelevant and inadequate as demand for power grows.

>>54537515
>Simplifying there is fixed amount of energy in the universe that is getting lower and lower leading to death of universe
That's a bit too simple, isn't it?

You can't just lose energy. A fixed amount doesn't go down.

You'd want to say "useable energy" for that to make sense.

>>54536375
>infinite energy?
Literally? Not sure if it's possible even in most settings.

>The only way I could find is if they create a stable pathway to a dimension of pure energy.
Dark Energy is the most abundant, huh, "thingie" in the known universe. We can only interact with it through gravity so far. Perhaps micro-sized black holes work as traps in which dark energy "falls over". Then we, huh, make a sort of dynamo which converts gravitational energy in electrical power? This being to hydroelectric dams what nuclear reactors are to steam engines?

I'm really bullshitting here, not sure at all. Even 100% matter-to-energy conversion engines may be more practical than the above, and those surpass antimatter storage.

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>>54536375
Wizientists trigger the chaos outside all universes to spawn fresh new universes to use as energetic cattle in your local multiversal butchery

this may or may not cause consequences on the overall balance of the multiverse, but who cares about long term? certainly not scienzards!

>>54538559
>Wizientists trigger the chaos outside all universes to spawn fresh new universes
as a matter of fact, there's no way to interact with the chaos, so the spawning process is entirely random; the docscerers merely pretend to have control over the thing to avoid the ethics about negating new universes the chance to live their course and to assure economic partnerships