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Send a piece of lead in orbit around the sun so it heats up but not melts, when it comes around heat some water to steam. Free power!
by ikekkdcjkfke 2y ago
Send a piece of lead in orbit around the sun so it heats up but not melts, when it comes around heat some water to steam. Free power!
- __MatrixMan__ 2y agoOnce all of your water is steam, how do you get it back into a liquid phase so that you can do it over again? Or so that you can do other things, like drink it...
- marcosdumay 2y agoThe internet is a messed-up place, because as much as I'm convinced this is a joke, I'm also certain somebody could write the same comment in all seriousness and think they are making a great discovery. We can't even just laugh.
- kragen 2y agothe idea is actually workable, it just isn't competitive with other ways of exploiting solar energy
- marcosdumay 2y agoIt has some really serious drawbacks, like needing to repeatedly synchronize and desynchronize orbits. That makes it crazy complex even on the context of crazy futuristic space machinery. That "isn't competitive" is quite an understatement. But yeah, technically it doesn't break any law of Physics.