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[Twiggie]

yeah. because we have enough mass right here on earth to build a dyson sphere.

[Yanlin]

Who said we have to use the earth?

[Nilocy]

Who said we have to use the earth?

The moon. Its fairly reflective and not to mention in the sunlight all the time.

[Twiggie]

uh, we're talking about masses several times that of earth. which isnt really going to be helped by the moon. we'd have to drag in asteroids from the kuiper belt in order to get enough

[/pretending i know what im talking about]

[Rilder]

uh, we're talking about masses several times that of earth. which isnt really going to be helped by the moon. we'd have to drag in asteroids from the kuiper belt in order to get enough

[/pretending i know what im talking about]

Yeah, slinging asteroids in Earths general direction is an AWESOME IDEA!

[Cthulhu]

All of this Dyson Sphere/asteroid redirecting stuff is up for serious consideration.

[sneakey pete]

You are underestimating the impact, expense and impracticality of solar panels.
 Unless you are suggesting roof-mounted nuclear generators. Then please, go on ahead.

And your trying to say that its more practical to launch them into space instead?

[Yanlin]

uh, we're talking about masses several times that of earth. which isnt really going to be helped by the moon. we'd have to drag in asteroids from the kuiper belt in order to get enough

[/pretending i know what im talking about]

Who said we have to use the earth?

Seriously. We got the moon, an unimaginable supply of asteroids, (Talking about more than 9001 trillion tons. Way more.) About half the moons in the solar system, some of the far off planets...

Sure it's not enough for a Dyson sphere. But it's enough to satisfy our energy needs for about as long as we'll be humans.

[umiman]

That's like saying no one on earth could possibly need more than 15mb of ram.

[Il Palazzo]

Now, now. Who's talking about what kind of Dyson's Sphere?
The original(Dyson's) idea of myriad, separate, sun-orbiting satelites with a habitat and a solar panel attached?
Or the uber-cool-but-physically-unlikely solid Dyson's Sphere like in e.g. "Blame!" comic book?

[Yanlin]

That's like saying no one on earth could possibly need more than 15mb of ram.

Except we're talking about something along the lines of a few hundred yottabytes of RAM.

In case you don't know, a yottabye is 10^24 bytes.

[Twiggie]

at the end of the day, however much we generate will encourage people to use that much. and then they'll want more. so its best just to stick with not generating too much energy.

[PTTG??]

I thought the ability to burn through any substance known to man would be helpful in taking down plastics and unrecyclables.
...

It is, and has already been done. They have these power plants that can take literally everything, burn it with an electrical arc much like a continuous lightning strike, and recover enough from the atomized remains to generate net energy. The only outputs are "syngas" (carbon monoxide, hydrogen, and helium) and chunks of slightly radioactive obsidian. The heat is enough to take practically any molecule and reduce it to atoms, so any toxin or hazardous waste other than dangerous elements can be destroyed without effort.

[umiman]

Yanlin: If you can make it, they can use it. It's not too difficult. There's no limit on human energy use, just a limit on imagination or the ability to think beyond one's current usage.

[JoshuaFH]

Topics like this clearly show that I don't pay enough attention to the General Discussion board. I'm really interested in Nuclear stuff, but it's too bad I'm too dimwitted in the subject to discuss it.