worst power idea 

So you create a giant sphere with a bunch of hardened plates on springs, and use the compression of the springs to turn an axel to generate power. You compress the springs by dropping a (small!) nuke in every so often

Orion reactor!

(the scary part is that the mechanisms for combining the work from all those springs to an axel might be more dangerous than the rest of the idea..)

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