Electricity in Equestria

It's there. Believe me, like a third world nation, they have tech of almost 21st century level in many places of Equestria distributed sporadically and seemingly at random, side by side with elements of the past, or what we would consider "the past."

Now to the point, I have a theory - well, two theories rather that coexist with one another - as to why we do not see power lines and the like throughout Equestria. I shall let pictures do the initial introduction to them!

The first theory is this, derived from statements made by Lauren Faust a long time ago. Basically, lots of things are magic powered, and it functions as a substitute for electricity where electricity would otherwise be difficult to generate and distribute for one reason or another.

The second theory is that plants like the Hoofer Damn shown above use magic to wirelessly transmit the electricity generated by the facility over a given radius of so many miles/kilometres, using some type of magictech or engineering that would make Tesla himself blush.

Comments

[The dragon hunter]

Hmm, sounds reasonable I also remember a video where it was suggested that jars containing twittermites could be used as batteries

[Word Worthy]

3382055 Yush, good sir! Very much so, they could.

[The Lunar Mare]

I honestly always went with the magic replaces electricity theory.

[The Lunar Mare]

Also, sense they have some form of 21st century tech, I hope they don't have some sort of magic nuke, those things cause nothing but trouble

[Word Worthy]

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[The dragon hunter]

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