How many people can the Solar System support?

Lets start this as a new thread.

Gactimus wrote:
How many people can the earth support?

A related question: How does this compare to the number of people that
the solar system as a whole can support?

-- Neil

I guess you would build a Dyson Sphere, but as the upper limit on the
population it could support, a little Googling around does not show me.
Be an interesting calculation.

Look here for a Dyson Sphe

www.nada.kth.se/~asa/dysonFAQ.html

I guess we would talking about a Dyson Sphere that uses all the major orbiting
material in the solar system. Of course a real Dyson Sphere is a Spherical Shell
of orbiting spheres or some kind of orbiting thing a ma bob's.