Fourth, sell diamond rings to college students and fifth, send computer data over copper electric wires.

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It would be more expensive to build more than one system of electric wires or natural gas pipelines to deliver power and fuel to every home in a state.

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"I'm happy that I'm a lot better off than so many other people I see on TV, clinging to electric posts, electric wires, so they won't be carried away (by the water), " she said.

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In the United States alone, four companies have been created to develop and commercialise HTSC wires and tapes for electric power and mobile phone applications.

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He recalls climbing telephone poles, handing power lines, tugging wires, collecting fees and repairing the electric meters.

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And when a magnetic field line vibrates, he says, it makes an electric field which excites current in wires.

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This time I had a "brain pacemaker" installed, which uses wires and a battery source to stimulate deep parts of the brain with electric currents.

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These implants convert light into electric current that stimulates local retinal neurons, which then send signals to the brain, meaning no wires are necessary to stimulate the retina.

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