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by pharke 2363 days ago
You're ignoring the point I was making about capturing the infrared waste heat. It seems counterintuitive for a civilization to go to the effort of encasing their star in a shell of satellites while dumping energy as waste heat. Surely there must be some way of utilizing that energy and my conjecture was that advances in the efficiency of the Seebeck effect might lead to a way to fully utilize that waste.