Science Fusion experiment breaks record, blasts out 10 quadrillion watts of power

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  1. Phatguysrule

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    An actual sphere around the sun isn't possible. But a swarm around the sun at mercury's distance would only have to withstand about 800 degrees F. So, not a problem.
     
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    With the technology and elements we know about.

    This would be something a Type II civ would do.
     
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    Yup. At this point the sun sends more energy to the planet in an hour than we use in a year.

    We're like Type 0.6.
     
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    I read a great essay a few years back and the theory was no civilization can ever reach Type I because you can't advance technology fast enough to prevent one determined person from killing everyone.

    It's easier to commit genocide than to prevent it.
     
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    Here's a youtube channel I watch a lot explaining it.

     
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    This one?

    https://strelkamag.com/en/article/backcasting-kardashev-one
     
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    I like it. But let's get the swarm going now, since we pretty much have the technology and go to the sphere once we get to Type II
     
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    Fermi's great filter is before type 1, huh? I was hoping we'd already passed it...
     
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    Yeah, that puzzles me too.
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    Mmmmm I don't know... Michio Kaku predicts (and he wrote a great book on this subject) that it will take us 100 years to even get to Type 1:

     
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    That's fine. No reason not to get the swarm going ASAP.
     
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    I think we'll build to the swarm. No reason why we can't have solar energy receptors on the moon or in space.

    We need to get way more energy from our sun.
     
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    Agreed.
    Like you say, I think that would be the beginning process of building the swarm. The manufacturing machines on the moon, automating those machines so they can reliably work for years without human interaction, etc. The technology to beam that power back to earth...

    Exciting times.
     
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    We need to build the Space Elevator first!

     
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    Would be awesome if only we had the material to make the tether...
     
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    The farther out in time you get the murkier predictions about man made events affecting the future get. I'd say 100 years is virtually impossible to predict.
     
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    What about Moore's law? Moore's law without any miraculous breakthroughs tells us a timeline of when our computing power will cease to double every 18 months - 2 years.
     
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