Thread:Eureka Enderborn/@comment-26535281-20170108014839/@comment-26347028-20170108024857

Dark dwarves 2 wrote: Maltalidenta Kwuitidherali wrote:

Dark dwarves 2 wrote: Sustainable.

Plus you could mine high energy gases and such and break down bounds, planets, and other such things. So I think this system can work. Planets wouldn't be anywhere near as much. Even then, you'd be losing a good three-quarters to energy inefficiency, and you probably wouldn't be able to capture it all in the first place. I'm not saying it's not still amazingly good, it just wouldn't be as amazingly good as it could be.

My fingers hurt from pressing buttons on my calculator. Of course, it would help with the sheer bulk the Empire would need you could have planets dedicated to such energy production which could maybe at peak efficiency make a few tons.

I thank you for doing the math, honestly deep down. Peak efficiency over how long? At 100% with the sun you'd get 0.417 tonnes every bloody picosecond (1x10^-9). Even with 1% efficiency that's going to give you four tonnes every nanosecond.