[atonse]

One day… two suns. Talk about playing God. :-)

That sounds like fascinating research.

[dylan604]

I mean, do we really need Jupiter as is? Everything Jupiter has done for us with clearing out the trash from the solar system would have been done by a 2nd smaller sun as well.

[RobertoG]

Here we are, trying to improve solar cells to avoid global warming, and dissidents like you want to add a sun to the solar system.

[dylan604]

It's not the solar system's fault that the inhabitants of one of the bodies in the system are bad stewards.

Also, if you have 30% effeciency from the light of one sun, wouldn't the additional light also improve the solar cell since there is now more light to get 30% out of? I mean, more is always better, right?

[stacks_on_stack]

I know your comment is in jest, but in point of fact the additional heat from another star would almost certainly reduce the efficiency of the panels.

[edgyquant]

Can you explain why?

[edgyquant]

It'd be twice (>1<2) the energy

[skinkestek]

And I thought we were supposed to reduce global warming ;-)

[ehsankia]

There's something hilarious in adding a sun so you can improve the efficiency of your solar panels, so that you can switch to renewable energy and offset warming caused by your current single sun (and polution).