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I have good news: we have a working nuclear fusion reactor that produces power on the order of 300 septillion watts per second. In their wisdom, its engineers c
by kibwen 3y ago
I have good news: we have a working nuclear fusion reactor that produces power on the order of 300 septillion watts per second. In their wisdom, its engineers conveniently placed it about 1 AU from the Earth, meaning that all we need to do is catch the energy it's currently transmitting to us.
- FabHK 3y agoPresumably 300 septillion Watts (=Joule per second). And it's true that the sun shines about 100 PW, or 5000x humanity's total energy usage (≈20 TW) on the surface of earth on a nice day.
- quickthrower2 3y agoWe are doing that more efficiently with higher levels of CO2
- weberer 3y agoAnd how would I go about that during Finnish winter?
- pgeorgi 3y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synchronous_grid_of_Northern_Europe https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synchronous_grid_of_Northern_E...