Solar Compression 2 points by badcarbine 2y ago ↗ HN In the millions of years we have before the sun expands, we will very likely have the technology to surpress the expansion magnetically.
[–] PaulHoule 2y ago ↗ (1) It’s billions of years, and(2) If you could capture enough sunlight to “lift” the star’s mass away to slow down its rate of burn it could be billions of more years, seehttps://academic.oup.com/mnras/article-abstract/523/3/3251/7...https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_lifting
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[ 2.7 ms ] story [ 10.4 ms ] thread(2) If you could capture enough sunlight to “lift” the star’s mass away to slow down its rate of burn it could be billions of more years, see
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article-abstract/523/3/3251/7...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_lifting