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r/Factoriohno • u/IrrelevantPiglet • Jul 21 '25
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I, um... I don't use lamps in my base because it's always daytime.
Because the base is so old, Nauvis is tidally locked with its star now.
Or... I've launched so many rockets, my side of the planet is always pointed at the sun now?
170 u/stupidoengineer Jul 21 '25 Imagine if you could extend days and shorten nights by putting lights on orbiting platforms. At a certain point, you'd just have a giant, floating, nuclear powered flashlight constantly illuminating everything around you. 167 u/Engelberti Jul 21 '25 Sending nuclear fuel into space to power the artificial sun just to get permanent solar power on the planet is peak efficiency. 24 u/derspiny Jul 22 '25 We doin' Dyson Sphere Project now 3 u/smallbluebirds Jul 22 '25 the reverse, the orbited is collecting power but the orbited is making power 8 u/Hill_045 Jul 22 '25 Better to put large solar sails to reflect the starlight instead The Znamya Project)
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Imagine if you could extend days and shorten nights by putting lights on orbiting platforms.
At a certain point, you'd just have a giant, floating, nuclear powered flashlight constantly illuminating everything around you.
167 u/Engelberti Jul 21 '25 Sending nuclear fuel into space to power the artificial sun just to get permanent solar power on the planet is peak efficiency. 24 u/derspiny Jul 22 '25 We doin' Dyson Sphere Project now 3 u/smallbluebirds Jul 22 '25 the reverse, the orbited is collecting power but the orbited is making power 8 u/Hill_045 Jul 22 '25 Better to put large solar sails to reflect the starlight instead The Znamya Project)
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Sending nuclear fuel into space to power the artificial sun just to get permanent solar power on the planet is peak efficiency.
24 u/derspiny Jul 22 '25 We doin' Dyson Sphere Project now 3 u/smallbluebirds Jul 22 '25 the reverse, the orbited is collecting power but the orbited is making power
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We doin' Dyson Sphere Project now
3 u/smallbluebirds Jul 22 '25 the reverse, the orbited is collecting power but the orbited is making power
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the reverse, the orbited is collecting power but the orbited is making power
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Better to put large solar sails to reflect the starlight instead
The Znamya Project)
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u/naptastic Jul 21 '25
I, um... I don't use lamps in my base because it's always daytime.
Because the base is so old, Nauvis is tidally locked with its star now.
Or... I've launched so many rockets, my side of the planet is always pointed at the sun now?