A skylight is also a great way to bring in more sunshine and to reap benefits that the sun can provide.
The second sun wouldn't provide much heat, but it might be enough to vaporize oxygen and nitrogen on the dark side.
The sun could provide as much or more power for nothing.
And if you're right, the sun would provide enough power.
It is just not correct that the sun provides heat only from its infrared portion of the solar spectrum.
When close to the sun however, the sun itself will provide the necessary heat.
Trees are self-generating, and the only energy needed is that which the sun provides worldwide.
While Starfarer still flew within the solar system, the sun would provide all the power it could possibly use.
The sun provides the energy to do exactly this at the ocean surface.
"The tunnel house doesn't have any artificial heat - just what the sun provides," she noted.
