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minus-squareIninewCrow@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up85·2 months agoThe idea … Send water on a 150 million kilometer pipeline to the sun to super heat it … then pipe the steam back to power a turbine
minus-squareSkullgrid@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up16·2 months agoI don’t know why you made me laugh so much, thanks for that post. I think it’s because it turns the concept into something so low tech and banal
minus-squareBonsaiBoo@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up12·2 months agoYou just described every rocket ever made by man.
minus-squarelime!@feddit.nulinkfedilinkarrow-up4·2 months agopotato guns are not typically self-propelled. i’m thinking more like HARP
minus-squarediabetic_porcupine@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·2 months agoThere could be a whole industry of Dyson Dudes that run back and forth with the tubes
minus-squaretempest@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up18·2 months agoWhat if the pipeline already existed… But it was made of light
minus-squareClent@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·2 months agoWouldn’t even need to run it out that far and we don’t have the material science to handle temperatures near the sun.
minus-squareapplebusch@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·2 months agothis is just the inverse of concentrated solar. you bring the pipe closer to the light rather than bringing the light closer to the pipe.
minus-squareIninewCrow@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·2 months agoYou’re not invited to the team building the Solar Dyson Tube Project
minus-square_stranger_@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 months agonew idea, we bring the sun closer to the Earth, run everything on boiling rock.
minus-squaremyotheraccount@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·2 months agoThe pipe can double as a space elevator
The idea …
Send water on a 150 million kilometer pipeline to the sun to super heat it … then pipe the steam back to power a turbine
Baby Dyson Sphere go brrr
dyson tube
I don’t know why you made me laugh so much, thanks for that post.
I think it’s because it turns the concept into something so low tech and banal
right? like a potato gun for space
You just described every rocket ever made by man.
potato guns are not typically self-propelled. i’m thinking more like HARP
There could be a whole industry of Dyson Dudes that run back and forth with the tubes
Dyson Straw.
What if the pipeline already existed… But it was made of light
Shut up science
Wouldn’t even need to run it out that far and we don’t have the material science to handle temperatures near the sun.
this is just the inverse of concentrated solar. you bring the pipe closer to the light rather than bringing the light closer to the pipe.
You’re not invited to the team building the Solar Dyson Tube Project
new idea, we bring the sun closer to the Earth, run everything on boiling rock.
The pipe can double as a space elevator