07-10-2015, 12:33 PM
This source from NASA has Pluto's luminosity compared to Earth's simplified down to 1/1000. Hmm.
And then I thought about growing plants with Pluto's level of illumination, which gets me thinking about cold garden worlds.
(07-10-2015, 10:29 AM)Rynn Wrote: The crazy thing about how bright it actually is on Pluto is that conceivably you could power a Civilization there on solar panels, if you had the resources to fab them. If there are the resources then with OA tech you just get your robot factories to start churning them out. If you cover ~12% of the planet's surface you'll continually produce about a TW. Very inefficient :p but cool to know that renewable energy is theoretically possible so far away.
And then I thought about growing plants with Pluto's level of illumination, which gets me thinking about cold garden worlds.