How to harness the power of a star

[mickhhh]

I was thinking the other day how could a stargate race harness the power of a star. The way we have all heard about is the Dyson sphere but no race on stargate has that kind of resourses. plus any race that advanced and rich would probly have a better way to get that kind of energy.

1 much cheaper way to do it could be to make a space station and put it in a very close orbit around a star. then get it to make a shield like the ori shield it beach head. a shield that large would take a lot of power but once we make a small shield the energy of the star would make it grow. Once it gets around the star we could channel the extra energy into the station.
Could we do this if we had the ori shield tech or could the ori do it?

Does any1 else have an idea how to do it.

[thekillman]

yes.

build a ZPM or NIG or Asgard Powercore, or tap into the core of an icarus planet.

[Guest750]

icarus planet... wonder what the volcanos where like.

[thekillman]

i doubt you could see them without asgard exoskeletons

[mirdin1992]

Replicators. Build a block thick Dyson sphere.

Plus 20-50 other ways to do it with stargate tech but don't wanna write them now.

[mickhhh]

yes.

build a ZPM or NIG or Asgard Powercore, or tap into the core of an icarus planet.

what have any of these got to do with harnessing the power of a star. they may be powerful but none have as much energy as a star.

[mickhhh]

Replicators. Build a block thick Dyson sphere.

Plus 20-50 other ways to do it with stargate tech but don't wanna write them now.

a block thick dyson sphere would not be strong enough.

and what a load of crap about 20-50 other ways. name 3 good ways

[Buba uognarf]

what have any of these got to do with harnessing the power of a star. they may be powerful but none have as much energy as a star.

Actually higher end ZPM figures place total ZPM output at above what an average star manages yearly.

[AVFan]

Actually higher end ZPM figures place total ZPM output at above what an average star manages yearly.

Not to be difficult.. But how could you POSSIBLY know what the output of a fictional power source is? I'm just not comprehending where you got that from.

[Buba uognarf]

Not to be difficult.. But how could you POSSIBLY know what the output of a fictional power source is? I'm just not comprehending where you got that from.

Statements like,

"It can destroy a whole planet when it explodes."

Or when Rodney says Arcturus at 50% power generates the power of a dozen ZPMs, we later see Arcturus destroy 4/5 of a star system allowing us to work out rough numbers for ZPMs.

[mirdin1992]

a block thick dyson sphere would not be strong enough.

and what a load of crap about 20-50 other ways. name 3 good ways

It would be strong enough to suck the power from almost all of the sun and it wouldn't even need to make it at 1 AU distance, 1/10th AU is enough for just power captation not making a habitable Dyson sphere(My reasoning that a bug can resist *insert number* of staff blast that can break several feet of solid rock/granit than it can resist several hundred degrees celsius.)

You wanted 3 methods:

1)Engineer selfrepairing solarcell that does the same as the replicator block idea.(A lot cheaper)
2)Send ship with energy syphon into the sun and equiped with matter conversion technology and highly temperature resistent (shield included/not included depending if the ship is automated or not)
3)Ori draining shield over the sun.
4)Stargate into the sun,it will be on for how long as I need and it has been shown capable of surviving being connected to a black hole(Which stargate has survived a couple of years by then) while sucking enough of the stars mass to induce a supernova.
5)Super mondo planet sized replicator construct that deploys all over the sun and suck all energy and matter of the star.(several weeks and the star is gone)

I have a couple of more but most are variations of these.

[thekillman]

Statements like,

"It can destroy a whole planet when it explodes."

Or when Rodney says Arcturus at 50% power generates the power of a dozen ZPMs, we later see Arcturus destroy 4/5 of a star system allowing us to work out rough numbers for ZPMs.

10000 years of oceanic pressure of an area with a radius of about 2km, and the shield is a bubble, so the surface area can be calculated.

[Buba uognarf]

10000 years of oceanic pressure of an area with a radius of about 2km, and the shield is a bubble, so the surface area can be calculated.

Yes, in this case you also need to factor in the amount of power needed to maintain the shield without ocean pressure though.

But there are definate ways to gauge its power.

Our star's luminosity is something like 3.8x10^26 watts per second? Which means it equals low end ZPM figures in less than 100 seconds. High end figures of ZPMs are many orders of magnitude higher though and would require years for a star to match.

[thekillman]

ways to harness the power of a star:

1: absorb it's plasma and use it in fusion reactors, which react it all the way up to iron

2: dyson sphere

3: collapse in a microuniverse (like a ZPM?)

4: surround with Ori Powersucking Shield

[mirdin1992]

ways to harness the power of a star:

1: absorb it's plasma and use it in fusion reactors, which react it all the way up to iron

2: dyson sphere

3: collapse in a microuniverse (like a ZPM?)

4: surround with Ori Powersucking Shield

You forgot matter convert it directly into energy