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And you do this why? You're making the assumption that capturing all of a star's energy is somehow a good thing. Something worth devoting goodness knows what ef
by Tloewald 10y ago
And you do this why? You're making the assumption that capturing all of a star's energy is somehow a good thing. Something worth devoting goodness knows what effort to. And whoops another comet destroyed a ludicrously big section of it.
- Phlarp 10y agoThere will, of course, be a fleet of space faring repair robots with infinite delta-v that can zip around the solar system and patch these things up! Doesn't a pluto orbit sized energy collection unit leave a lot of energy on the table? Something about inverse squares..?
- danieltillett 10y agoNo. A. Pluto sized Dyson sphere is actually 99.5% Carnot efficient [1]. 1. https://www.tillett.info/2016/08/03/carnot-efficient-dyson-spheres-are-undetectable-by-infrared-surveys/ https://www.tillett.info/2016/08/03/carnot-efficient-dyson-s...