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Originally Posted by Clarke
Acording to this page, the world energy consumption in 2003 was 20,261TWh, and so the power of that year was 20261e12/1 year = 2.313 TW. The ratio between these is 50.3. IOW, the RDA require the power of 50 modern Earths to fuel an ISV. I presume that JC does not mean to imply that the RDA rule (a large chunk of) the world of 2154?  |
That really is an immense amount of energy required, but I think the most important question is not how the RDA can find a reasonable way to fuel the ISV Venture Star.
But instead...
If you were to place the ISV on a treadmill, would it still reach near relativistic speeds?
09-19-2011, 09:01 AM
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