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by lazyguy2 2425 days ago
We could bore a series of holes through the center of the planet and then use gigantic orbital crystals to create a array of lazers to focus the sun's light through to the dark side of the planet.
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I'm a fan of using magical heat-producing rocks to boil water and spin turbines, but admittedly that has fallen a bit out of fashion.
This could be nuclear or coal
There's an argument to be had that burning coal doesn't count as magic while fission does, but in any case, good catch, let me amend that to: magic heat-producing rocks that don't fill the atmosphere with dinosaur squeezings.