What If We Put Solar Panels Around the Sun?

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Would a Sun-orbiting solar farm be a highly efficient way to power Earth, or would solar paneling the Sun be too much energy to handle? Let's see what would happen if we surrounded our Sun with solar panels. How would we get all that power back to Earth, and how would we build these solar panels?

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00:00 Solar panels
02:01 Thank you, Masterworks!
03:27 Solar power potential
04:11 Making solar cells
06:19 Parker Solar Probe
06:46 Solar power stations

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