[ExI] [Extropolis] Crosspost

[Adrian Tymes]

On Wed, Apr 16, 2025 at 7:21 PM Jason Resch via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 16, 2025, 6:05 PM Adrian Tymes via extropy-chat <
> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>
>> This rules out computers being made out of gas and plasma, how?
>>
>> Maybe they would need to use a lot more energy.  The Sun's temperature is
>> around 15 million Kelvin, vs. room temperature being a few hundred Kelvin,
>> so maybe a bit less than 100,000 times as much as a computer on Earth.
>> Being literally inside the Sun, abundant energy would be available - more
>> than 100,000 times what is available on Earth.
>>
>
> A difference in energy between two locations is required if the energy is
> to be applied to perform work.
>
> There's lots of usable energy at the sun's surface (because you can make
> that heat do something useful before sending it off into cold space) but
> very little can be done with all the heat within in the sun while inside
> the sun.
>

Fair enough, though even just confined to the surface layers of the sun,
that's still quite a lot of potential.
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