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Solar power? I'm pretty sure they'd be using nuclear fusion.
by w1ntermute 14y ago
Solar power? I'm pretty sure they'd be using nuclear fusion.
- sbierwagen 14y agoYou're not thinking very big, or in terribly deep timescales. There's not a lot of easy-to-access hydrogen in the solar system, and most of it is at the bottom of steep gravity wells. (The gas giants) On the other hand, if you put your solar collector well inside Mercury's orbit, where the solar flux is dramatically higher, then you get plenty of power, without having to maintain and fuel a reactor.
- caf 14y agoSolar at the scale of a Dyson Sphere really is just a giant fusion reactor.
- kamaal 14y agoDyson sphere is basically designing energy harvesting mechanisms for nuclear fusion.
- dscrd 14y agoI'm pretty sure they're just burning plants for energy.