Poll Dryson Array vs. Dyson Sphere

[Asbo Zaprudder]

Yeah, most science fiction is infeasible in ways economically, sociologically, historically, and so on -- it serves to provide a vehicle for telling a compelling story that resonates with our own experiences and examines the human condition.

I was expecting @Dryson to provide economic reasons for why his concept was preferable to a Dyson sphere (or other megastructure, of whatever variety) -- never mind that the fact Jupiter is a more hostile environment because of its higher gravity and dangerous radiation belts than is, for example, Earth's L1 point. What would future society do with all that power anyway? As for the workers, I imagine they would be autonomous or semi-autonomous robots or directly telemanipulated from an environment more suited to humans.

 

[Dryson]

It was only a question. Why don't you publish or patent your inventions rather than post them to a BB for a scifi TV series?

From earlier comments this scientific website and not sci-fi. My idea is not sci-fi related because the processes involved are already being used around the world and in space.

A future society would use the power of course to build an inter-solar civilization that would then continue to explore and the establish new colonies.

Humans would be used of course. Radiation shielding would be also be used to prevent humans from getting raditiafion related cancers. I have already posted early in the conversation the benefits of a Dryson TEG Array to the Dyson Swarm.

 

[Asbo Zaprudder]

I did not state that your idea is science fiction. I stated that this site is primarily a bulletin board for a sci-fi TV show and its spin offs. Even this forum is far from the most ideal for introducing paradigm shifts in the way that people who might be able to influence the direction of applications of technology think about alternative ways of colonising and exploiting the solar system. Such people have better things to do than read and filter the many posts on this web site.

Let's overlook the fact that you are seemingly magically making your megastructures hover over non-equatorial sites on Jupiter well inside the Jovian synchronous orbital radius of 160,052 km (the planetary radius = 69,911 km). In hard figures, what are the energetic and economic advantages of your proposal for your proposal over alternative schemes that meet the needs of a putative future society? How do you envisage this society functioning? It seems to have excluded the use of AIs and robots to aid it in its colonisation -- why? Number crunching and deep analysis are the only way people are ever going to take such proposals seriously.