>New Avalon is a drop in the ocean of
>surface area inside the sphere, what's being done with the rest of it?

Photovoltaic cells.

>I agree it's hella cool, and would be intimidating as all hell to the
>99.umpty-9% of people who don't know how it was created and look at it
>and go "They BUILT that thing?".

More and/or better reasons than these were not required by the Reconstruction-era WDF.

--G.
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