Gadgetory

thanks for watching check wiki's for more great videos explaining everything text click the subscribe button then enable notifications with the Bell icon so you won't miss any future videos do you have any idea how much power the Sun sends out into space it's over 384 yata watts nearly the equivalent of 92 billion megatons of TNT every second I mean just think about how many hot pockets that can microwave but seriously though only a tiny fraction of this power actually reaches the earth and while this is a good thing in some respects I mean we all be vaporized if that much energy hit us all at once the sun's energy is responsible in one way or another for basically everything on earth so wouldn't it be cool if we could harness all that potential well probably but this is basically the definition of easier said than done I mean the best we've come up with here at Tech wiki is may be covering the Australian outback and solar panels but another idea that's been kicked around quite a bit is the Dyson Sphere and no I'm not talking about the ball-shaped thing on an overpriced vacuum cleaner a Dyson Sphere as a shell source built around a star like the Sun to capture its energy output so it can be used later for just about anything and if you're sitting there thinking nope enough tech quickie for me today cuz this is clearly science fiction I can't really say I blame you because it is not only is there probably not even enough matter in our entire solar system to surround the Sun with a big egg shell thing but because of the way gravity works when the sphere surrounds an object there wouldn't be anything to keep it from bumping into the Sun which would be a galactically awful disaster for what I hope for obvious reasons but other Dyson desk solutions could help us solve our resource crisis one day and make everything from more powerful computing to paying just a nickel on your power bill every year possible in the future now one idea is to put a bunch of energy collectors into orbit around the Sun forming a Dyson ring really not all that dissimilar to how we currently have tons of man-made satellites orbiting the Earth now these Dyson satellites would be fitted with large energy collectors similar to solar panels now obviously we've had like solar power for quite some time now but recent scientific development has produced infrared collectors and since over 90 percent of the sun's emitted energy is in the form of either visible or infrared light it isn't absurd to think we could have collection technology one day efficient enough to grab huge amounts of it other proposals call for building multiple Dyson rings around the Sun to form a cage or a swarm of sorts or even using structures called solar sails that are so thin and reflective that they're actually pushed by the sun's radiation but also pulled inward by the sun's gravity at the same time rendering them stable solar cells have actually already been deployed for other applications but of course while all of this is at least technically feasible unlike the hollow sphere we discussed earlier there are still large obstacles to overcome ignore the challenges of getting all the energy back to earth and everything from tethers and space elevators with giant wires to beaming concentrated sunlight directly back to the Earth's surface and hoping it doesn't turn into a giant death ray has been proposed actually collecting the construction materials is also a massive undertaking one popular idea involves sending robots to Mercury to mine useful raw materials like iron that could be used to manufacture energy collectors which would in turn provide more energy to expand a Dyson structure further now something like this would obviously still take quite a bit of time to accomplish but the hope is that as more and more Dyson collectors were built production could wrap up exponentially or at least that's what we would plant until the emperor if he shows up displeased with our current lack of 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