A Dark Sun Rising - Its a Solar Wrap
From The Space Library
Author - M. Beech
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JBIS Volume # - 63
Page # - 104-107
Year - 2010
Keywords - Stars, Sun, astroengineering, Dyson sphere, SETI
JBIS Reference Code # - 2010.63.104
Number of Pages - 4
[edit] Abstract
The structure of a solar mass star artificially induced into an isothermal state is examined. The process is imagined to form part of a possible large-scale, solar engineering project that our distant descendents might attempt to perform in order to stave- off the Sun's future red giant phase. It is found that stable, solar-mass, isothermal configurations having radii between 2 and 10 solar radii with no internal energy generation through nuclear fusion reactions can be constructed. It is suggested that future humanity might choose to inhabit the outer surface of a solar wrap and tap the thermal energy of the isothermal Sun as a long- lived power supply.
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