Most famous for his dual-cyclone bagless vacuum cleaner, British inventor and billionaire James Dyson 
announced plans Friday to begin development on his next project, a 149 598 000 km-long sphere that when finished will completely encircle a star and provide living space for over 8 trillion people.
“As our society’s energy needs continue to increase, it won’t be long before our long-term survival as a species becomes at risk and we need to harness one-hundred percent of a star’s energy,” said Dyson in a statement to the press.
Nicknamed the “Dyson Sphere,” the planet-dwarfing superstructure, which will be the size of the orbit of the Earth around the sun, will be based on the centrifugal, cyclonic separation technology already used in Dyson’s futuristic vacuums.
Said Dyson: “I felt that a Dyson Sphere was really just the next logical step in my work.”
Though currently still searching for a suitable G2-class star, Dyson says he is anxious to begin construction on what will be — in theory — the largest artificial structure in the known universe and hopes to begin as early as next year.
