{"id":436385,"date":"2026-05-07T06:04:18","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T06:04:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/436385\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T06:04:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T06:04:18","slug":"space-based-solar-power-is-a-solution-in-search-of-a-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/436385\/","title":{"rendered":"Space-Based Solar Power Is a Solution in Search of a Problem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody___5jDr\" data-component=\"paragraph\">A Dyson Sphere is a theoretical structure built around a star to tap all of its energy. It\u2019s pure science fiction. But our Big Tech overlords seem determined to build a Dollar-Store Dyson Sphere around Earth, surrounding it with enough orbiting solar panels and data centers to blot out the stars.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody___5jDr\" data-component=\"paragraph\">In theory, a Dyson Sphere is evidence of a highly advanced civilization. In our reality, the Dollar-Store Dyson Sphere suggests our civilization might be making too many expensive, complicated solutions for problems that don\u2019t really exist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Dyson Sphere is a theoretical structure built around a star to tap all of its energy. It\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":436386,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[15704,15703,7795,246,190435,61,60,65803,39523,82,17213,190434,1884,11510],"class_list":["post-436385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-chief-executive-officer","tag-elon-reeve-musk","tag-engineering","tag-environment","tag-hog-inc","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-lazard-inc","tag-meta-platforms-inc-class-a","tag-science","tag-solar-energy","tag-sphere-technology-holdings","tag-startups","tag-view"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=436385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436385\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/436386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=436385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=436385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=436385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}