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thanks for watching techwiki for more great videos explaining everything tech

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click the subscribe button then enable notifications with the bell icon so you

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won't miss any future videos do you have any idea how much power the

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sun sends out into space it's over 380

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yada watts nearly the equivalent of 92

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billion megatons of tnt every second i

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mean just think about how many hot pockets that can microwave but seriously

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though only a tiny fraction of this power actually reaches the earth and

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while this is a good thing in some respects i mean we'd all be vaporized if

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that much energy hit us all at once the sun's energy is responsible in one

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way or another for basically everything on earth so wouldn't it be cool if we

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could harness all that potential well probably but this is basically the

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definition of easier said than done i mean the best we've come up with here

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at techwiki is maybe covering the australian outback and solar panels but

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another idea that's been kicked around quite a bit is the dyson sphere

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and no i'm not talking about the ball shape thing on an overpriced vacuum

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cleaner a dyson sphere is a shell source built around a star like the sun to

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capture its energy output so it can be used later for just about anything and

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if you're sitting there thinking nope enough Techquickie for me today because

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this is clearly science fiction i can't really say i blame you because

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it is not only is there probably not even

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enough matter in our entire solar system to surround the sun with a big eggshell

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thing but because of the way gravity works when the sphere surrounds an

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object there wouldn't be anything to keep it from bumping into the sun which

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would be a galactically awful disaster for what i hope for obvious reasons

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but other dyson-esque solutions could help us solve our resource crisis one

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day and make everything from more powerful computing to paying just a

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nickel on your power bill every year possible in the future now one idea is

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to put a bunch of energy collectors into orbit around the sun forming a dyson

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ring really not all that dissimilar to how we currently have tons of man-made

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satellites orbiting the earth now these dyson satellites would be fitted with

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large energy collectors similar to solar panels now obviously we've had visible

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light solar power for quite some time now but recent scientific development

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has produced infrared collectors and since over 90 of the sun's emitted

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energy is in the form of either visible or infrared light it isn't absurd to

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think we could have collection technology one day efficient enough to

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grab huge amounts of it other proposals call for building

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multiple dyson rings around the sun to form a cage or a swarm of sorts or even

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using structures called solar sails that are so thin and reflective that they're

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actually pushed by the sun's radiation but also pulled inward by the sun's

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gravity at the same time rendering them stable solar cells have actually already

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been deployed for other applications but of course while all of this is at least

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technically feasible unlike the hollow sphere we discussed earlier there are

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still large obstacles to overcome ignoring the challenges of getting all

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the energy back to earth and everything from tethers and space elevators with

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giant wires to beaming concentrated sunlight directly back to the earth's

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surface and hoping it doesn't turn into a giant death ray has been proposed

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actually collecting the construction materials is also a massive undertaking

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one popular idea involves sending robots to mercury to mine useful raw materials

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like iron that could be used to manufacture energy collectors which

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would in turn provide more energy to expand the dyson structure further

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now something like this would obviously still take quite a bit of time to

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accomplish but the hope is that as more and more dyson collectors were built

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production can ramp up exponentially or at least that's what we would plan to

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tell the emperor if he shows up displeased with our current lack of

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progress and speaking of a lack of progress are

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