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How can any of this not be one fat ass bubble? He can't possibly think that something like that is actually feasible.
It's not that crazy from a futurism perspective. If we become an interplanetary civilization, we will probably have things like this run our compute. I just wouldn't spend money investing in that future today...
Building a Dyson sphere around our sun would require more energy and material than we have access to or are capable of harnessing. So while a nice idea, it is a dead-end in practical terms.
> He was also an author, publisher, and philanthropist, although he said of himself: "I am a showman by profession ... and all the gilding shall make nothing else of me.” According to Barnum's critics, his personal aim was "to put money in his own coffers". The adage "there's a sucker born every minute" has frequently been attributed to him, although no evidence exists that he had coined the phrase.
Building a Dyson sphere around our sun would require more energy and material than we have access to or are capable of harnessing. So while a nice idea, it is a dead-end in practical terms.
Building a Dyson sphere around our sun would require more energy and material than we have access to or are capable of harnessing. So while a nice idea, it is a dead-end in practical terms.