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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dannyalcatraz" data-source="post: 5669034" data-attributes="member: 19675">Just using magic from D&D:1) Portals greatly reduce transportation costs at every step in the market.  ALL costs: spoilage, theft (robbery or embezzlement), provisioning the laborers, time, storage, etc.2) Permanent gateways to elemental planes provide limitless sources of heat, water & air for forges, furnaces, refineries or power production- either completely or virtually without pollution.3) A simple Decanter of Endless Water gets you infinite energy in the form of a water wheel.  This could let you set up mills anywhere in the world (reducing costs of getting processed grains to market) or power "green" automobiles and trains.  Similarly, greater power could be gotten having a rock striking a bucket wheel between 2 vertically stacked portals.  As the rock falls, it hits the bucket, imparting energy to the wheel, then falls out into the lower portal...only to emerge from the portal above the next bucket.4) Portals to the Elemental Plane of Fire, Spheres of Annihilation and the like would provide easy and clean waste disppeal.5) Continual Light- in whatever edition's form- ushers in the 24 hour workday (at least for factories)...and reduces the number of places miscreants can hide.6) Mining becomes safer with Continual Light lanterns (no ignition of flammable gasses), portals to the plane of air providing breathable air everywhere in the mine (& minimizing the buildup of all kinds of gasses), CLW & Create Food & Water devices and/or personnel make surviving mine collapses more likely, as do countless supernatural tunneling methods.7) Sailing becomes safer and more reliable when you don't need to fear a natural dead calm because you can generate wind via Gust of Wind or a portal to the Elemental Plane of Air.8) 4x permanent Tenser's Floating discs makes for vehicle springs better than any you could manufacture.  A small portal to the plane of Air makes Hovercraft and Fan boats possible.9) the Mending spell and it's close relative Fabricate makes any minor spellcaster into Mr. Fixit: repair costs & time drop.</blockquote>

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