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Letter: Letters : . . .

Published 5 July 1997

From Hendrik Tiedemann, University of Hamburg

A supercivilisation in the far future, when most stars have burnt out, could
get its energy by pushing neutron stars into one another to form black holes. A
lot of the mass energy of the neutron stars released in the process could be
harvested.

Issue no. 2089 published 5 July 1997

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