On: Upper limits on partial Dyson spheres in the Milky Way

[kevin_thibedeau]

Plants like that already exist minus the exothermy.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leaf_window

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesembryanthemum_crystallinu...

[Qem → kevin_thibedeau]

Cycads are kinda warm-blooded plants. They heat-up their cones to attract pollinators. Oliver Sacks mentions this fact in his book, The Island of the Colorblind. See https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/10/071004143133.h...

[dr_dshiv → kevin_thibedeau]

Is there a botanist in the house? How do we crossbreed plants this radically different?

Here’s the Wikipedia on thermogenic plants. I did not know skunk cabbage can melt snow! I used to have it in my back yard. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermogenic_plant

Here’s a paper on the genetics and cellular biology of thermogenesis in skunk cabbage:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21955303/

[dekhn → dr_dshiv]

you don't. you make solar panels, which are more efficient than plants at converting solar energy to electrical current, and then use it to run a space heater. Don't genetically engineer what you can engineer in silicon.