Colonizing the Kuiper Belt (Narration Only)
Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur
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Colonizing Pluto
It is possible to build an energy collector that big of course, it hardly used to be very thick after all, just tin foil thick. It would be 40 times bigger than that by the time it reached Pluto too, more or less in the middle of the Kuiper Belt. The problem is though, this distance is a very serious amount of juice that's also tight. Even if that beam were down to 1000 watts per square meter when it arrived, akin to the intensity of noon time sunlight,. That means it is transmitting 5 gigawatts when it left the original platform and an intensity of 67 megawatts per square meter just a little brighter than the surface of the sun.
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