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this seems to ignore the fact that Mercury is way too deep in Sol’s gravity well to be useful, all it’s looking at is Mercury mass.
> The mirror fleet does not increase the total power available to the project; Mercury still intercepts only a fixed amount of sunlight. I think I must be missing something important, because this doesn't make sense to me. If you put your mirrors in orbits where they don't block the dayside surface (sun-synchronous?), then they increase the total surface area receiving solar radiation.
this seems to ignore the fact that Mercury is way too deep in Sol’s gravity well to be useful, all it’s looking at is Mercury mass.
Does Mercury not have any useful radioactive material to provide more power?
Are there reactor designs that could work up there? There's not much water for coolant.
This reads like an LLM plagiarizing this video from Kurzgesagt: https://youtu.be/pP44EPBMb8A?si=fSwWPOCnCsC1QEny
This reads like an LLM plagiarizing this video from Kurzgesagt: https://youtu.be/pP44EPBMb8A?si=fSwWPOCnCsC1QEny
Kurzgesagt didn't invent the concept of disassembling Mercury to build a Dyson swarm. Stuart Armstrong proposed it in a lecture in 2012[0]. [0]: https://youtu.be/zQTfuI-9jIo?si=3jwmhoB7zx6rclhb
1-6 years can't be realistic can it? does someone have a better estimate of how long this would take?
> The mirror fleet does not increase the total power available to the project; Mercury still intercepts only a fixed amount of sunlight. I think I must be missing something important, because this doesn't make sense to me. If you put your mirrors in orbits where they don't block the dayside surface (sun-synchronous?), then they increase the total surface area receiving solar radiation.
Yeah, orbital mirrors essentially expand the radius of Mercury, increasing the sunlight available. Terrestrial mirrors would ensure that light makes it from the sunward side to the dark side of the planet.