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- From: dj@ssd.kodak.com (Dave Jones)
- Newsgroups: sci.space
- Subject: Re: SPS feasibility / Astrophysical Engineering
- Message-ID: <1992Aug19.173302.26325@pixel.kodak.com>
- Date: 19 Aug 92 17:33:02 GMT
- Article-I.D.: pixel.1992Aug19.173302.26325
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- In article <1548@hsvaic.boeing.com> eder@hsvaic.boeing.com (Dani Eder) writes:
- >gary@ke4zv.uucp (Gary Coffman) writes:
- >
- >>Numbers could be 2X either way. That's still a near *planetary* body
- >>we're talking about plating with solar cells in any case. That's so
- >>unreal I'm surprised *anyone* would seriously consider it.
- >
- >I'm working on a book that discusses DISMANTLING planetary bodies
- >(and rebuilding them more to our liking, sigh - all that wasted
- >mass inside planets doing nothing more useful than holding
- >atmospheres down, sheesh what poor design).
- >
- >(1) The energy required to dismantle a planet is 0.6Mgr, where
- >M is the mass, g is the surface gravity, and r is the radius.
- >
- >(2) If we calculate the amount of solar energy falling on a
- >planetary body, and relate it to the disassembly energy, we can
- >derive a natural time constant: how long will it take to dismantle
- >a planet using the sunlight falling on an area the size of the
- >planet?
- >
- (0.8)d.r^2 / F(e) where d is density, r is radius, F(e) is energy
- flux in units/unit area/time. I was looking for the result to be
- independent of radius, but it was not to be.....The Earth would take
- 22 times as long as the Moon, in case there are any Vogon wannabe's
- listening.
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