[ExI] Are Dyson swarms a good idea?

[Ben Zaiboc]

On 28/01/2026 14:36, Jason Resch wrote:
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>     John K Clark wrote:
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>     If there are better ways of producing amounts of power that are LITERALLY  astronomical and keep doing so for billions of years than Dyson spheres I have not heard of them,
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>     but I do know one thing, even if they exist they would still have to obey the Second Law Of Thermodynamics, and that means we should be able to observe them. But we have seen nothing.   
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> If they shunt waste heat into black holes (which is thermodynamically optimal) then we wouldn't see anything.
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> If they run reversible computers (which is optimally efficient) then we wouldn't see anything.


And if their light hasn't reached us yet, we wouldn't see anything yet.

Not seeing something, when dealing with galactic distances, is not an argument that the something doesn't exist.

-- 
Ben