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Well we have a very incomplete but about 10-15% efficient Dyson swarm on earth with solar and wind farms. Now we just need to scale up.
by vitiral 2y ago
Well we have a very incomplete but about 10-15% efficient Dyson swarm on earth with solar and wind farms. Now we just need to scale up.
- aurareturn 2y agoPretty sure solar panels are 20% plus now with some much higher.
- vitiral 2y agoJust did a Google search. Most cells which are actually produced are 10-11%.
- aurareturn 2y agoMost residential deployments are near 20% or higher.
- vitiral 2y agoGood call, doing the search with those keywords yielded similar results
- TheLoafOfBread 2y agoThat will be average efficiency, because during night solar panels usually don't work, unless you live in Spain https://www.nationalreview.com/planet-gore/scandal-solar-power-spain-chris-horner/ https://www.nationalreview.com/planet-gore/scandal-solar-pow...
- Karellen 2y agoI thought the efficiency of a Dyson sphere/swarm was typically measured by how much of the star's total power was being used? We are not capturing 10-15% of the sun's total power output.
- vitiral 2y agoWell, by that metric we have 0.0000000001% of a Dyson sphere created.
- kiba 2y agoDon't forget the farms that feed humans and their farm animals.
- vitiral 2y agoWell, the entire ecosystem and weather is fed by solar. It would be interesting to think about what it's "efficiency" would be...