dyson speres

Wouldn’t it be cool to harness energy from stars? Just imagine the amount of energy you’d have. You could literally power the whole solar system. Well, you can—hypothetically—through Dyson Spheres.

Dyson Spheres are hypothetical megastructures imagined to absorb energy from stars. This idea was proposed by Freeman Dyson in 1960. Most people imagine it as a solid sphere rotating around the sun. However, this wouldn’t work due to instability and the lack of materials strong enough to support it.

Scientists have proposed several ways a Dyson Sphere could be built. One idea is a Dyson Swarm, a collection of many solar panels orbiting the sun. Another is a Dyson Bubble, made of multiple solar cells held in place by solar radiation, collecting energy.

Dyson Spheres are incredibly fascinating. They could potentially provide us with nearly unlimited energy. In the end, they’re still hypothetical—but we can dream that one day, we’ll have a civilization powered entirely by the sun.