<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">On Sat, Aug 17, 2024 at 7:24 AM BillK via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">“Large-scale stellar-energy harvesting structures may especially be<br>
obsolete when considering technological advances,” adds Vincent<br>
Kofman, a co-author of the paper at NASA Goddard and American<br>
University, Washington, D.C. “Surely a society that can place enormous<br>
structures in space would be able to access nuclear fusion or other<br>
space-efficient methods of generating power.”<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>What is solar, but a collection system for a conveniently premade (and needing no maintenance for billions more years) gigantic fusion reactor? </div></div></div>