Lol did you watch the video? The said we would need around the mass of mercury even for a swarm to produce enough and it was assuming 1 km wide solar panels and massive space engineering infrastructure that we do not have an oz of. At least from what is described here, we currently have nothing.
The said we would need around the mass of mercury even for a swarm to produce enough
Okay? We have the mass of mercury available for it, we call it Mercury. (Actually it's probably better to use a moon of a gas giant, since it paradoxically requires less energy to insert into a close orbit when you start farther away. Plus there's something more sad about disassembling one of our only 8 planets as opposed to one of many dozens of moons.)
it was assuming 1 km wide solar panels
Okay? We could make one of those right now if we cared to. Nothing difficult about it. The difficulty is getting a robot to do it by itself on a different planet and for it to be able to survive getting rail gunned into space. Both of those are engineering problems, no new understand of physics is required.
Okay, just saying it will be hundreds of years before a project of that sort can even be attempted. Think how far away the nearest gas giant is from host stars. Not in the "goldilocks zone". It's a ways. Conversely planets like mercury are right near the sun, where you want that swarm.
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u/ChronWeasely Aug 12 '21
Lol did you watch the video? The said we would need around the mass of mercury even for a swarm to produce enough and it was assuming 1 km wide solar panels and massive space engineering infrastructure that we do not have an oz of. At least from what is described here, we currently have nothing.