  First conceptualised in Olaf Stapledon's 1937 novel 'Star Maker', before
being popularised by Freeman Dyson in the 1960s, Dyson Spheres are structures
which surround a civilisation's sun to collect all the energy it radiates.
Through discussion of the features of such a feat of engineering, the
viability, scale and likely design of a Dyson structure is evaluated, before
details about each stage of its construction and operation are investigated. It
is found that a Dyson Swarm, a large array of individual satellites orbiting
another planetary body, is the ideal design for such a structure over the solid
sun-surrounding structure which is typically associated with the Dyson Sphere.
  In our solar system, such a structure based around Mars would be able to
account for the Earth's 2019 global power consumption of 18.35 TW within fifty
years once its construction has begun, which itself could start by 2040. The
swarm of over 5.5 billion satellites would be constructed on the surface of
Mars before being launched by electromagnetic accelerators into a Martian
orbit. Efficiency of the Dyson Swarm ranges from around 0.74 - 2.77% of the
Sun's $3.85\times10^{26}$ W output, with large potential for growth as both
current technologies improve and future concepts are brought to reality in the
time before and during the swarm's construction. Not only would a Dyson Swarm
provide a near infinite, renewable power source for Earth, it would allow for
significant expansions in human space exploration and for our civilisation as a
whole.
