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OP, you should always include the title alt-text with an xkcd comic. Like so:
Getting the utility people to run transmission lines to Earth is expensive, but it will pay for itself in no time.
need a bot
Installing a solar panel on the sun is easier said than done. The closest real example is probably the Parker Solar Probe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOZhPz92Dic
That number didn’t really seem enough to me. However, the solar luminosity is about 3.8×10^26 watts and the surface area about 6.1×10^18 m2, ie. 62.3 MW / m2. 8760 hours in a year times 62300 kW equals 545 million kW/h, at twenty percent efficiency times twenty cents each is $21.8 M/a.
The sun might seem to be really, really hot; but in fact, it is just quite hot and really, really big.
I guess connecting the panels to the net is an issue for Infra?
They could send the energy wirelessly in the form of light beams, then use special panels to transform those beams of light on Earth. Let’s call them “solar panels”.
it really sucks having direct links instead of images on mobile
