Nah. You’ll probably want several shells operating above any sane temperature for steam. You don’t want to lose that extremely high temperature by just heating water to 600 °C or so.
Comment on same shit every day, on god
SmokeyDope@piefed.social 7 hours ago
“Dyson Spheres? Look, playing with sunlight and mirrors was a fun side project, but you want to know a much more advanced method of generating power?”
“Please dont….”
“Thats right! By hurling entire water worlds into a star, we then capture the released steam which powers our gravitationally locked dynamo network.”
marcos@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
brown567@sh.itjust.works 5 hours ago
Throwing water into a star wouldn’t get you steam, it’d just fuel the star XD
Sidhean@piefed.social 3 hours ago
You gotta seal the planet in a heat-safe bag, and make sure to not drop it out of orbit, or you’ll lose the water, as you say.