Dyson Spheres are not dark

John K Clark (johnkc@well.com)
Sat, 28 Jun 1997 21:10:35 -0700 (PDT)


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On Sat, 28 Jun 1997 Michael Lorrey <retroman@tpk.net> Wrote:

>If you are dealing with just the radiated heat from the 5000 deg
>surface, this is true, but the corona (the sun's "atmosphere) has
>much higher temperatures, that reach as high as 6 million degrees,
>so I'm not sure if this will work unless the diamondoid is a
>superconductor of heat.

It's true that the sun's corona is very hot, but it's so thin it contains
very little heat. Without radiated energy or some other supply of energy you
would very quickly freeze to death in that 6 million degree atmosphere.

John K Clark johnkc@well.com

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