Scenario: Aliens gift humanity some mega power plant that runs off a black hole or some shit. Maybe it’s a quantum time battery or perpetual motion machine, whatever.
If we plopped it somewhere on Earth, could humanity build infrastructure across the globe to provide everyone with near unlimited clean electricity?
One concept I’ve pondered is having superconducting transmission lines. It would be complex and expensive, but not completely infeasible with an infinite energy generator I guess. Really depends on where the generator gets placed though. If it was in orbit, you could just have it beam down microwaves to distribution stations. The stations would have some batteries or capacitors or something, so they could keep operating when out of range/line-of-sight.
I guess you could have orbital substations to spread the beams around the world evenly, so you don’t have to have so much storage at each terrestrial station. That’s probably the better sci-fi solution.