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It has density issues though. If you had a piece of the sun the size of a huge power plant - like enormous, the power output would be too low to be useful.


Mandatory: We should build it in space and beam the electricity back to earth using electromagnetic waves. We could collect those using solar cells. And then get rid of the plant and use the sun instead.


Yes - exactly. No need for a Dyson sphere, or a man-made sun - just use the real sun and solar panels!




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