Another cloud free day in Scotland let me catch almost 9 hours of this huge and lively prom. Taken with my home made 90mm modded Coronado PST and DMK21 camera. Software: CdC, Eqmod, DSSR, AutoStakkert!, Wavesharp, DVS, Shotcut and Gimp.
David Wilson on April 8, 2025 @ Inverness, Scotland
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You know any efficient way to harness that energy?
Solar panels?
Haven't seen a solar panel that can take a cloud of plasma many times the size of earth.
The most efficient, a NASA solar panel that cost tens of thousands of dollars and uses fucking gold foil, is only 30% efficient. So try again.
Who said you need to catch all of it in a single panel??
The reason nasa goes overboard (though, not really), is because it's worth it for space stuff. On the surface we have an abundance of space
Modern residential solar panels are around 22-24% efficient.
And why are you worried about the rest of that energy? You worried it's gonna be lost?
Yeah just grab a handful.
Doesnβt take a genius: Dyson Sphere
I assume that's sarcasm π
Roughly you need at least 906.000 kmΒ² of 1x1m solar panelling.
I know a guy.
That's actually not the worst. It seems doable to produce that much square area of solar panels, even for a civilization like us. We need about 500 000 square kilometers of solar panels on the Earth's surface to power our global electrical needs. This is within the realm of possibility
The more tricky part is to actually position it around the sun, that part is what makes it impossible for our current tech level and space infrastructure
Yeah the possibilities of a solar field on the moon is much more sensible.
It never loses suction
Corn has been doing that. We only need to wait for the oil lobby to die and then science will probably figure things out...
tng dyson sphere, except the star end up killing or causing the civilization to abandon the sphere.