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- From: roberts@cmr.ncsl.nist.gov (John Roberts)
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- Subject: Re: heat production of the sun
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- Date: 11 Jan 93 00:39:50 GMT
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- -From: clarke@acme.ucf.edu (Thomas Clarke)
- -Subject: Re: *** BUSSARD RAMSCOOP ***
- -Date: 5 Jan 93 19:25:07 GMT
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- -> Not good enough, alas. The pressure at the *center of the Sun* produces
- -> only the most sluggish hydrogen reaction -- one that will take billions
- -> of years to consume the Sun's hydrogen supply.
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- -I understand that a pile of human bodies (still alive somehow) as
- -large as the sun would have about the same mass, but would produce
- -more heat!!
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- Let's see - using the numbers from the frequently-asked-questions post,
- the sun produces about 0.19 mW/kg. Unless I missed some decimal places,
- that's roughly 1/10000 of the per-kilogram heat production of humans.
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- Of course, only a fraction of the sun's mass is undergoing fusion.
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- John Roberts
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