Wasn't it Anton Sherwood who wrote:
>
>And I'll bet Dyson qualified the conjecture with some such phrase as "in 
>the limit", i.e. he doesn't expect perfectly complete capture, but the 
>amount of light captured gets ever more complete over time.

Perhaps he's expecting the inhabitants to have a biological imperative
to reproduce without limit, so that their population tends to rise
exponentially. If the practical limit to the population of a star system
is the amount of energy they can capture from the star, then there'd be
strenuous efforts to capture the energy that leaks through the last few
gaps.

-- 
Mike Williams
Gentleman of Leisure

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