Under review for publication in the ‘Space Policy’, this 7,000-word Higher Project Qualification dissertation paper, which I worked from September 2018 to June 2020, investigates the next stage on the Kardashev scale and explores if and how we could harness the entire solar output from the sun. After achieving the highest possible grade of A*, I have researched three hours every week since September 2020 to further improve this paper. Complete paper: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1FMzSagP7m2ItkbmVr0VH0C3C6Kg4KXzC/view