Saturday, September 28, 2019

thermodynamics - Thermodynamically possible to hide a Dyson sphere?


You build a Dyson sphere around a star to capture all its energy. The outer surface of the Dyson sphere still radiates heat at much higher temperature than the cold space background, so you're easy to detect.


But you'd like to stay hidden. So you cool the outer surface of the Dyson sphere to near cold space background. Of course you still need to radiate your excess heat somewhere, so you plan to radiate it off in directed beams, away from the directions of the nearby solar systems, to stay hidden from your neighbors at least.



Questions:



  1. Is such directed radiation of excess heat allowed by known laws of physics?

  2. Would the energy of the star be sufficient for running the cooling system?




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