USING STARS AS BATTERY
Hello, my favorite earthlings, we are back again to perform some amazing science experiments with one of our favorite lab rats and that is none other than our sun. So, what should we do with him today?
How about, using the sun as the batteries for our car or our television, in other words, we would be using literal solar energy directly captured from the sun and using that very energy in our day-to-day use.
Well, something this crazy thought can only arise in the mind of a bond villain, but actually, this idea was first thought of by a Russian physicist named Dyson Sphere.
First, let's understand where this idea emerges from...
This idea goes way back to 1839 with Edmond Becquerel, a young physicist working in France observed and discovered the photovoltaic effect- a process that produces a voltage or electric current when exposed to light or radiant energy, this was something that would change the ways humanity thinks about creating energy and push us to greater heights of civilization.
Have you ever wondered what big things can we accomplish if we have a star as our energy source?
For starters Unlimited and Free internet services, Free TV, AC all day long with no harm to the environment, clean air to breathe, No water problems and no electricity cost if operated sincerely off course!
Well to put simply going to space for vacation, drones, and robots with an unlimited supply of power are used in all sectors, zero pollution, and flying cars are used commonly......
Now let's understand the present and proposed future methods to use the stars to power humanity's growth...
Let's start with how it may look
Looks Cawabanga doesn’t it!!!
Did you know roughly how much energy our sun produces every second… Sun produces astonishingly 1 trillion megaton bombs! This means in 1 second our sun produces enough energy to power our human civilization for roughly 500,000 years. But humans use only a tiny fraction of all the energy available from the sun.
So, 430 quintillion joules of the sun's energy fall on the Earth every hour.
A lot of energy right?
How much do we use?
Well, Humanity uses 410 quintillion joules in a year, so in a year we fail to use all the energy sun sends us in a single hour.
(All these insane numbers are calculated by scientists and seriously these numbers are insanely big)
It’s like a drop from more than 2.6 million oceans combined
Imagine if we could capture all that energy and use it to power our civilization,
What miracles could we accomplish?
What places could we explore with all that energy?
According to astrophysicists, any truly advanced civilization will be able to harness all its energy directly from the stars
DYSON SPHERE
A Dyson sphere is a hypothetical megastructure that completely encompasses a star and captures a large percentage of its power output with the help of solar cells OF FUTURE.
The first contemporary description of the structure was by Olaf Stapleton in his science fiction novel Star Maker (1937), in which he described "every solar system... surrounded by a gauze of light-traps, which focused the escaping solar energy for intelligent use". The concept was later popularized by Freeman Dyson in his 1960 paper "Search for Artificial Stellar Sources of Infrared Radiation".
Now let's understand Dyson Sphere in detail
Brace yourselves for some NERD TALK for a little while
Dyson Sphere is an artificial megastructures concept capable of withstanding very high temperatures and surround the star (in orbits as satellites...), These megastructures are designed to intercept and collect large amounts of all of the star's energy which can then be transmitted using various forms of wireless energy transfer to the planet.
You can say just like we saw in Star trek where they used to power their spacecraft from the power of a dead star.
A TYPE 2 CIVILISATION BUILT AROUND A STAR
Variants proposed-
Dyson swarm
This is closest to the original concept. It is composed of many independent structures orbiting in a dense formation around the star.
Dyson bubble
It is like the Dyson swarm but unlike the Dyson swarm, the structures are not in the orbits around the star, but rather would be satellites suspended by the use of enormous light sails using radiation pressure to counteract the star's pull of gravity.
This structure will be humungous like NIDAVELLIR in INFINITY WAR where THOR’S STROMBREAKER was forged
Such constructs would not be in danger of collision or of eclipsing one another; they would be stationary about the star, and independent of one another. Because the ratio of radiation pressure to the force of gravity from a star is constant regardless of the distance (provided the satellite has an unobstructed line of sight to the surface of its star), such satellites could also vary their distance from their central star.
Dyson shell
It is a uniform solid shell of matter around the star, this structure surrounds the star and is capable to intercept 100% of the star's energy
Just imagine if we can achieve this even in a million years what are the possibilities if you ask me anything near to this technology…... Star Wars won't remain a dream anymore.
Now there is ONE more Idea that's way futuristic but truly a sign of advanced civilization, And it is to extract fuel directly from the star that includes some residual Antimatter that stars emit in small amounts.
References:
https://earthsky.org/space/what-is-a-dyson-sphere/
https://www.space.com/dyson-sphere.html
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