2812: "Solar Panel Placement"

[ratammer]

Title text: Getting the utility people to run transmission lines to Earth is expensive, but it will pay for itself in no time.

If it's that good just above the surface of the Sun, think about how much exposure it would get inside the Sun!

[somitomi]

If it's that good just above the surface of the Sun, think about how much exposure it would get inside the Sun!

It'd actually be less good, because some of the Sun would be behind it

[ratammer]

Oh, good point.

...What if we surrounded the Sun with them?

[somitomi]

Oh, good point.

...What if we surrounded the Sun with them?

have you by any chance heard of someone named Freeman Dyson?

[heuristically_alone]

The maintenance costs have got to be hundreds of millions a year though.