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[quote=@Morden Man]
[b][color=cornflowerblue]“Wait, it [i]is[/i] the meteor rock, isn’t it? How on Earth did you do it, Lex?”[/color][/b]
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[color=39b54a]"I like your fiance Reed. She's very observant."[/color] Lex smiled and nodded at the woman. He raced over to his desk and pulled a notebook out of one of its drawers. He turned around trying to hide his excitement so that they would not suspect how close he was to failing before they got here. He handed it over to Reed to show him his notes. It was filled with pages and pages of scribbles and failed experiments. [color=39b54a]"To be honest it was extremely difficult. As you probably already know, the rock gives off a slight warmth along with its glow. That's what lead me to expect that it could be giving off energy in the first place. Bertrand, turn off the generator."[/color]

"Yes sir." One of the other scientists complied. As he did so the room went dark except for the slight glow of the rock in the power chamber on the top of the machine. Lex grabbed a stool and placed it at the side of the machine and opened a hatch on the side. The hatch let out a gust of steam as it opened and the glow from the object grew brighter. 

Lex grabbed a pair of large tongs and reached into the hatch pulling out the rock which was now brightly shining. He motioned the couple over to his desk and placed the object on a stainless steel metal tray. He stood straight with excitement as Reed marveled at the rock. It was now glowing with four times the intensity it did under normal conditions.  

[color=39b54a]"The first thing I had to realize was that this substance is alien. It does not react with anything on our periodic table under normal conditions so trying to use a known element in a controlled enviornment was futile. I noticed however that it does react to solar energy, or rather the nuclear fusion of the radiation of solar energy. In fact it seems to literally suck solar radiation into itself causing it to let out its own unique and clean energy source. This is quite literally nuclear energy using radiation that is completely harmless to humans or anything native to planet Earth." [/color] 

Lex let what he was saying soak in a bit before he picked the rock back up with his pair of tongs and returned it to the generator. Within seconds he had the hatch re-sealed and the machine was up and running again. The room came back to life with power after a few flickers that worried Lex. Hopefully they didn't notice. 

[color=39b54a]"I use a particle accelerator to simulate actual solar energy and pump the reaction through a filtration system into a mess of gears and other equipment to create enough kinetic energy to produce the electrical power you see in this room. Eventually I believe I will be able to power the entire city with a rock of this substance the size of a watermelon."[/color]