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NiveKoEN t1_iqoshon wrote on October 2, 2022 at 12:03 AM

Reply to comment by TwentySevenNihilists in The US's National Renewable Energy Laboratory wants to make decentralized microgrids as simple to set up and operate as diesel generators, and has created a prototype that is much simpler than existing microgrid technology. by lughnasadh

This is so bad in so many ways. The point of a Dyson sphere is to capture the radiation of the sun that the earth doesn’t get at all.

TwentySevenNihilists t1_iqosxsk wrote on October 2, 2022 at 12:06 AM

I meant a sphere centered on the sun, that's big enough to enclose the Earth too.

Turns out that's still a bad idea, but you'd capture all the radiation of the sun that didn't hit planets and such.