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minus-squareIninewCrow@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up71·22 hours 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-squareapplebusch@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·5 hours 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-squarediabetic_porcupine@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·12 hours agoThere could be a whole industry of Dyson Dudes that run back and forth with the tubes
minus-squareSkullgrid@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up14·22 hours 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-up11·22 hours agoYou just described every rocket ever made by man.
minus-squarelime!@feddit.nulinkfedilinkarrow-up3·19 hours agopotato guns are not typically self-propelled. i’m thinking more like HARP
minus-squaretempest@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up13·18 hours agoWhat if the pipeline already existed… But it was made of light
minus-squaremyotheraccount@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·16 hours agoThe pipe can double as a space elevator
minus-squareClent@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·22 hours agoWouldn’t even need to run it out that far and we don’t have the material science to handle temperatures near the sun.
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
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.
Baby Dyson Sphere go brrr
Dyson Straw.
dyson tube
There could be a whole industry of Dyson Dudes that run back and forth with the tubes
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
What if the pipeline already existed… But it was made of light
Shut up science
The pipe can double as a space elevator
Wouldn’t even need to run it out that far and we don’t have the material science to handle temperatures near the sun.