"Going forward, to avoid embarrassing situations, all jokes on X must include the number 69 or be in the form of a Doge meme. Failure to comply will result in a ban."- "You also have the option of expressing amazement at my amazing jokes that I dug up from decade old reference sources. Please."
It constantly fascinates me that you can get useful energy from such an insignificant fraction of the sun's output.
A sphere with a radius of 1 AU has a surface area of 2.8 × 1023 m2. That means a 1 m2 solar panel can capture, at most, 0.00000000000000000000036% of the sun's rays.
Not only that, but you lose a bit of energy from atmosphere, the spectrum the panels can theoretically absorb and then what you can actually get out of a panel (below)
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And that relatively tiny amount of energy is enough to say fuck it, we'll build a global energy grid of ultra high voltage DC transmission lines and go wild on solar installation, and we've got incredibly cheap energy for at least 25 years (the lowest tier of panels degrades at 0.8 percent a year, so you're looking at 60 percent generation capacity after half a century)
It's always a bit funny when singularity techbro types start talking big ideas about megastructures and Dyson spheres like dude, we aren't even harvesting a fraction of a percent of the energy that is being hand delivered to us on earth right now. Maybe we should try capturing a little more of that
Dyson sphere, except it's from James Dyson and not Freeman Dyson, and it's got what's in those funky bladeless fans or hair dryers
Same with going to go live on Mars and the moon and Jupiter’s moons, etc.
Like homies. We ain’t even brought civilization to our oceans or mountains right here on Earth, which are much closer and more hospitable.
You would think the next big bazinga thing would be seasteads and terraforming new islands and the like on Earth, but they blew right past that. China, Saudis and the gulf states are the only ones trying to do the terraforming sci-fi stuff.
Even Antarctica is far more habitable than Mars. It’s warmer (usually) and you can breathe the air.
and there's no shortage of fresh water, and you can re-supply quite cheaply (relatively)
They know they are killing it all here and they want to move on to killing the next thing.
even a completely "dead" and polluted Earth is 100 times more hospitable and easily repaired than trying to terraform Mars
I'm releasing my white paper for the HyperDyson X. This ingenious technology will be powering the entire planet within two years. Preorder today for 420 thousand dogecoin.
But you'll be stealing all the sun from the plants! Checkmate libruls!
First he invented a worse subway, now he wants to build a worse sun?
Imagine the sun, except privatized, jankier, and probably loaded down with divorce dad meme references
If the sun has ads, you are morally obligated to become a terrorist.
Imagine an undercity of sorts where natural sunlight won’t reach, so all light and energy must be leased at a premium. Wait, that’s just the inside of my apartment.
I feel bad for the junior analytics engineer at twitter that just got tasked with designing a space fusion reactor.
If they master the art of making shit up in a way that seems convincing enough for a credulous 50something divorce dad to believe it, they could make bank.
The real challenge would be laughing at all his stale edgy jokes whenever he bumblefucks by.
Is the joke about the sun or something? I'm not a science guy. Here I thought it was just Bazinga to Bazinga communication.
It was a joke about the sun.
I admit I almost missed it until the talk about solar panels collecting the energy on Earth, but then again I don't proclaim myself to be the smartest man in the world and the world's authority on engineering or science.
Someone should invent a solar panel
- Elon Musk 2024He actually did say this 2015
“We have this handy fusion reactor in the sky called the sun. You don’t have to do anything. It just works. It shows up everyday and produces ridiculous amounts of power.”
Obviously over the last nine years his brain has turned to mush even more
He's going to pull a Mr. Burns and block out the sun so as to induce demand for his fake sun, even though he doesn't believe induced demand is a thing
How can you expect a poster of Elon's voluminous prolific (dare I say: virile??) profile to spend time Grok-ing every Xeet? He's saving the world with posting!
"Great idea!"
