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- "never"

technically

- "...heating due to gravitational contraction will also lead to hydrogen fusion in a shell just outside the core, where unfused hydrogen remains, contributing to the increased luminosity, which will eventually reach more than 1,000 times its present luminosity...[135]"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun#Life_phases

1.3 megawatts per square meter! An entire nuclear power plant on your roof, provided the weather allows, provided weather still exists. The future is bright.




Futures so bright, I gotta wear 7.3 km thick ablative lead shielding!


Chances are that the expansion of the sun will have stripped away the weather, along with the roof, the house, and any of the lighter elements of the Earth’s surface.


like every "well technically" you should read it is "not really"


Oh, you're on HN! How many technical advancements started with "technically" looking not too realistic at the moment?


About as useful as citing heat death when refuting climate change being caused by humans.




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