>>13147496that's a good point. what exactly are the technological requirements for a dyson swarm?
seems simple enough to make an array of mirrors, just a matter of resource allocation. a little more challenging to get them to redirect the light where it needs to go. the real problem, as far as i can tell, is that i have no fucking clue how we'd make use of that much energy. not like we don't need it, but like i don't have any clue how we'd convert it to useful energy. what kind of solar panel wouldn't just get vaporized?
maybe, you could funnel all that light to some massive reservoir of water or something. let the light heat it up and it'd be like a big geothermal/hydro power plant. or, maybe we could diffuse it with a convex mirror or a series of convex mirrors so that conventional solar panels could make use of it in some other orbital array, or a number of them.
i have no fucking clue how you'd then transfer that energy back to earth or wherever else. it seems like a ludicrously bad idea to point a focused beam of even 1% of the sun's light at any planet. sounds like the most energetic laser ever conceived. i figure you'd always have to process all that light into usable energy at some power station in space, use it to charge massive batteries or something.
>>13147239 seems to want people to work on it so, /sci/, do you have any ideas? 
