Out of Pod Experience

Are we looking for alien life in the Universe in the wrong place? Is a Dyson Sphere just to extraordinary to be believable? What about a simpler method of aliens using the available resources of their solar system to generate electricity for their civilization? Where would this simple form of electrical power come from?

The storms located on the surfaces of Gas Giants.

http://www.cnn.com/2016/07/28/health/jupiter-great-red-spot-heat/index.html?sr=fbCNN073116jupiter-great-red-spot-heat0801AMVODtopLink&linkId=27104075

After reading the article I began to think that a space faring civilization would be better suited to use the storms such as the Red Spot on Jupiter to convert heat into available electricity. Electricity that could then be stored in capacitors or batteries and transported to other planets and moons in the alien solar system as well as the moons orbiting the Gas Giant.

The Dryson Collection Array would look similar to a class graduation ring. The collection array itself would be centered over the storm where thousands of thermoelectric generators or TEG's would collect the heat and convert the heat into electricity. Each cluster of TEG's would be dedicated to a planet or a moon's electrical needs. The band of the TEG Array would wrap around the Gas Giant like the band on the ring around the finger where sections of the band would house batteries and capacitors to store and load the electrical energy for travel to the moon or planet. Launch and equipment bays, housing and other human facilities would complete the TEG Array with other systems built into the array being used to power the electrical systems from the storm itself.

Harvesting heat from the storms of a Gas Giant would be more economical if not safer due to less radiation shielding needed to be used to protect the array from the sun's radiation emission as well as ensuring that if the sun had giant solar flares the array would not be damaged.

And maybe Aliens don't care about space and electricity.

Imagine it the other way around, some Alien sitting at his supertelescope just 200ly away from earth: No electricity, No radiowaves broadcasted.

Something for your consideration: should We Build a Dyson Sphere?