Sufficiently and feasibly

  • tal@lemmy.today
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    12 days ago

    Do you think the risk can be adequately and feasibly underwritten?

    I mean, I suppose that technically a lone satellite with solar panels in orbit around the Sun is probably an extremely limited form of a Dyson sphere — it’s not as if there’s some firm lower bound on what percentage of energy output from the star that needs to be captured. One could presumably scale up incrementally.

    So, in that technical sense, sure.

    Could humanity in 2025 aspire to build enough infrastructure to capture something like 1% of the Sun’s output? No, that’s just way beyond our capabilities now.

    • jeff 👨‍💻@programming.dev
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      12 days ago

      I mean, I suppose that technically a lone satellite with solar panels in orbit around the Sun is probably an extremely limited form of a Dyson sphere — it’s not as if there’s some firm lower bound on what percentage of energy output from the star that needs to be captured. One could presumably scale up incrementally.

      By that definition the solar panels that are already on the Earth are a tiny Dyson swarm. And honestly, I approve.