From: Chuck Kuecker (ckuecker@ckent.org)
Date: Sat Feb 23 2002 - 18:09:31 MST
At 06:40 PM 2/23/02 -0500, Andrew Clough wrote:
>>Perhaps in L-5 of even geosynchronous orbit is the proper place for a
>>propulsion fuel production facility? Lots of solar energy for acres of pv
>>cells, far enough away from an explosion, so that if it occured it would
>>merely be a spectacular industrial accident.I was only half-joking about the
>>lunar surface. It would be an excellent place, unless one generated something
>>over a 1/5th of a kilogram--then watch-out.
>
>Roughly speaking, about how many kilotons per gram are we talking about
>here (mega, giga, peta?)
E= mc^2. m in grams, E in joules. One gram total conversion: 9x10^18 joules.
So - how many joules per kiloton TNT? (1000 tons)
From http://www.convert-me.com/en/convert/energy : 1 joule = 2.39e-10 tons
of TNT - multiply - 2.15x10^9 tons of TNT per gram of AH, or 2.15x10^6
kilotons. Or 2150 megatons.
Boom.
Chuck Kuecker
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