"One of these lakes can handle all of our energy needs for hundreds of years, IMO. There's gotta be a way to harness the energy."
A REALLLY long siphon tube. Course we could go there and have huge oil tanks running across the solar system. Then the environmentalist would be complaining about the effects of oil spills on the shores of the astroid belt.
The trick would be to keep these “Gases liquid as your transport approaches the Sun.
I would imagine the pressures would escalate quite rapidly as sunlight on the transports surface intensifies.