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EEVblog 1637: Solar Freakin' Space Mirrors! - Reflect Orbital DEBUNKED [1] [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkjyeI0ykGM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkjy

• tivert 2y ago
  >> Also, has anyone though of how mind-numbingly wasteful solar fusion is? All that energy, and only a tiny fraction makes it to Earth with the rest getting dumped wastefully into space. Seems like an area that's ripe for disruption by a startup. > EEVblog 1637: Solar Freakin' Space Mirrors! - Reflect Orbital DEBUNKED [1] That seems like a kludge because space mirrors are still going leave lots of energy dumped wastefully into space. But even if we could collect all the Sun's energy, there's no way we could use it all and it'd just fry the planet. The kind of disruption I was thinking about was re-engineering the Sun so it only produces the energy the Earth needs. There are great monetization opportunities, because the technology would almost certainly allow for charging subscription fees for sunlight.
  • danbruc 2y ago
    Then you are looking for star lifting. [1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_lifting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_lifting