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Fossil fuels vs solar, it’s a sustainability question. Plus, dismantling a sun isn’t much help to the planets orbiting it, and then you need to find a way to ef
by vermilingua 6y ago
Fossil fuels vs solar, it’s a sustainability question. Plus, dismantling a sun isn’t much help to the planets orbiting it, and then you need to find a way to efficiently get that energy to another system to be used.
- m4rtink 6y agoPlanets ? Who cares about planets when building a Dyson swarm - other the possibly as a bootstrap cache of materials to get thing going. Yeah, you might occasionally leave one in place for historical reasons, but otherwise they are just too useless not to make use of their mass for something better. Not to mention traffic management headaches given that normal planets usually stubbornly refuse to do any orbit corrections when needed.
- Retric 6y agoThe amount of fuel is fixed either way so it’s an efficiency question. Normal stars only burn a small percentage of their fuel. Maximum energy is captured by turning hydrogen into lead. After that, dumping lead into a deep gravity well is the final option.