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You're harnessing the entire energy output of a star. No need to transport anything - this is gathering, not hunting.

• tomtomistaken 2y ago
  > this is gathering, not hunting. This metaphor doesn’t make sense to me.
  • quectophoton 2y ago
    s/gathering/harvesting/, maybe? I'm guessing it's more like making a living space in the sphere itself or somewhere nearby and using the energy there (maybe exporting some percentage to Earth). Because if we're able to build the sphere itself, we probably would already know some way to cool it down in space so it doesn't burn itself, wasting all the money that went to its construction.
  • helpfulContrib 2y ago
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• e40 2y ago
  The disconnect is the dyson searm is in space and we’re earth where we want to use the energy. How does it get to earth?
  • z3phyr 2y ago
    > We are on earth No, if we have a dyson sphere, we are everywhere playa
  • throwaway11460 2y ago
    It doesn't, there's no need for planets at that time, people live on rotating artificial habitats that form the Dyson sphere itself.