Eli5: What facts are holding humanity back from creating a Dyson sphere in reality?
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Nothing really technologically. In terms of collecting power, beaming it to earth, and keeping solar panels in orbit it is actually fairly basic technology that we already have.
However you would need to dismantle literally the entire solar system just to get enough materials to build something that big, we lack the infrastructure to build in space, we don’t currently have a need for that much power and we would struggle to maintain Earth’s orbit once we start pulling apart other planets.
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