| ▲ | greenavocado 2 days ago | |
Planck energy: ~10^19 GeV is approx 2 GJ per collision Energy to vaporize Earth's oceans: ~4 x 10^27 J For a Planck-scale linear collider at LHC-like collision rates (~10^8/sec): Beam power requirement: ~2 x 10^17 W With realistic wall-plug efficiency of ~1%: ~2 x 10^19 W Annual energy consumption: ~6 x 10^26 J At 1% efficiency, one year of operation would: Vaporize about 15% of Earth's oceans Or vaporize the Mediterranean Sea roughly 50 times Or boil Lake Superior every 5 hours Or one complete ocean vaporization every 6-7 years of operation It's about 1 million times current global power consumption Or about 50,000 Suns running continuously Or 170 billion Large Hadron Colliders operating simultaneously | ||
| ▲ | jjgreen 10 hours ago | parent [-] | |
Or about 50,000 Suns running continuously I seriously read that and first thought it was a dig at SPARC chips running hot ... | ||