[ExI] NASA doubts Dyson megastructures will ever be necessary

[Adrian Tymes]

On Sat, Aug 17, 2024 at 7:24 AM BillK via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> “Large-scale stellar-energy harvesting structures may especially be
> obsolete when considering technological advances,” adds Vincent
> Kofman, a co-author of the paper at NASA Goddard and American
> University, Washington, D.C. “Surely a society that can place enormous
> structures in space would be able to access nuclear fusion or other
> space-efficient methods of generating power.”
>

What is solar, but a collection system for a conveniently premade (and
needing no maintenance for billions more years) gigantic fusion reactor?
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