[atahanacar]

Can you siphon power from the sun so other people can't get its radiation, without you covering the entire surface with something like a Dyson sphere?

[Schroedingersat]

If your object is roughly the size of a wavelength or less, it can siphon off power that would be a few wavelengths away.

So a bacterium might be able to annoy their neighbor. But that's about it.

If the sun was in some kind of equilibrium with stuff around it (ie. There was a big mirror acting kinda analogously to a ground plane) you could effectively cast a shadow much bigger than yourself.

But that's about it. Visible light is very small.

[philistine]

Mr. Burns managed to do it.

[Rebelgecko]

In moderation, isn't that a potential upside of space based solar farms?

[mike256]

Are black holes allowed?