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re: Should we build a Dyson Sphere to harvest 100 percent of sunlight?
Posted on 5/1/22 at 12:38 am to HooDooWitch
Posted on 5/1/22 at 12:38 am to HooDooWitch
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Meh, a government project of this magnitude would come in way over budget.
That is why you let smart people running smart private organizations take on the endeavor. How much money would it have taken for the US government to create an autonomous electric vehicle?
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Posted on 5/1/22 at 4:44 am to UndercoverBryologist
Plant life converts only .05% of the light that reaches the earth into energy. They have been pretty successful.
The problem isn’t the capture or the amount of solar energy at the surface of the earth. It’s the conversion.
The problem isn’t the capture or the amount of solar energy at the surface of the earth. It’s the conversion.
Posted on 5/1/22 at 8:46 am to lostinbr
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As I understand it, the theory is generally that a Dyson sphere would start as exactly that but then grow exponentially as the civilization has access to more and more energy. By the time you get to a full sphere, the civilization is harvesting so much energy from the star that direct “natural” light isn’t needed anymore. At least that’s how I’ve interpreted it, anyhow.
I have a hard time believing in the long term stability of a system in which entities take all the light from a star, but pinky promise to give it back to those planet side.
Can you imagine the doomsaying and riots as soon as the plan was announced?
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