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Can you siphon power from the sun so other people can't get its radiation, without you covering the entire surface with something like a Dyson sphere?
by atahanacar 4y ago
Can you siphon power from the sun so other people can't get its radiation, without you covering the entire surface with something like a Dyson sphere?
- philistine 4y agoMr. Burns managed to do it.
- mike256 4y agoAre black holes allowed?
- Schroedingersat 4y agoIf your object is roughly the size of a wavelength or less, it can siphon off power that would be a few wavelengths away. So a bacterium might be able to annoy their neighbor. But that's about it. If the sun was in some kind of equilibrium with stuff around it (ie. There was a big mirror acting kinda analogously to a ground plane) you could effectively cast a shadow much bigger than yourself. But that's about it. Visible light is very small.
- Rebelgecko 4y agoIn moderation, isn't that a potential upside of space based solar farms?