HARNESSING THE POWER OF A STAR
Journey into a stellar megastructure engineered to capture the electromagnetic output of its parent star. Compare a physically plausible Dyson Swarm of thousands of independent solar collectors with a speculative Dyson Shell enclosure.
Simplified Theoretical Estimate: Assumes idealized spherical interception at shared orbital radius r. Real collector swarms experience shadowing, cosine orientation losses, and orbital spacing constraints. f = min(1, A_eff / (4 × π × r²)) • P = L☉ × f