are dyson spheres a pipedream or a real stage in civilization that's gonna be reached?
>>27259The bigger headache isn’t building the sphere, but being able to withstand the gravitational force of living near a fucking star.
dyson spheres are so stupid
>oh this star has 10 gajillion gajillion watts
>ok how do we access it
>put solar panels around the surface where the energy is the least and the slowest rate
just like blow up the star or something or throw something in there
>>27447We have no idea how we could harvest energy directly from the star though
>>27448I guess if you're going to have the technology to build a dyson sphere your efforts would be better off spent trying to perfect nuclear fusion
>>27448put the star in a lake and then use the steam to move a turbine fan connected to an alternator
>>27455You have obviously not thought about clogging caused by dead fish. Meanwhile placing the star above a glacier and moving it oten enough so that the ice can renew itself every 23K years makes far more sense.
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https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/01/160104080031.htm