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I like exercise ;-) If we wanted a self-assembling orbital solar array to provide that much power, it would need to be almost half the surface area of the moon
by imglorp 11y ago
I like exercise ;-)
If we wanted a self-assembling orbital solar array to provide that much power, it would need to be almost half the surface area of the moon.
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- venomsnake 11y agowe could use a suitable size black hole to create lensing effect - that way we could capture sizable chunk of the sun's energy
- airza 11y agoprobably making a reasonably large lens would be somewhat easier than creating and controlling a black hole