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Jack Simth said:
There are some downsides, though - your generator can go critical in one of two basic ways: underfeeding (energy output is proportional to an inverse of the black hole's mass, and it loses mass as it outputs energy - if you don't feed it enough, it explodes in a very big burst of some very hard radiation)
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Not just proportional to 1/ mass, but to 1/mass^4 IIRC.

Dropping the mass by 10% increases power by about 52%
Half the mass -> 16 times the output.

So, yeah, quite unstable a reactor.

narf poit chez BOOM

September 22nd, 2005 03:12 AM

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Wall and paper?

Jack Simth

September 22nd, 2005 10:01 AM

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Suicide Junkie said:
Not just proportional to 1/ mass, but to 1/mass^4 IIRC.

Dropping the mass by 10% increases power by about 52%
Half the mass -> 16 times the output.

So, yeah, quite unstable a reactor.

Hence, "an inverse" rather than "the inverse" in the earlier post - couldn't quite remember the power, but knew it was > 1.

narf poit chez BOOM

September 22nd, 2005 02:08 PM

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mass^4? Wouldn't that possibly imply that gravity is four-dimensional?

El_Phil

September 22nd, 2005 02:11 PM

Spleen

Much as like the idea of black hole reactor, we are getting somewhat sidetracked from the usual insanity round here.

This is a good thing, keep it up.

NullAshton

September 22nd, 2005 03:23 PM

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Science is weirder than fiction. Remember that.

El_Phil

September 22nd, 2005 03:34 PM

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Well I asked the purple fruitbat in my closet about that, he replied that the influence of cats on the development of external combustion was much under-rated.

narf poit chez BOOM

September 22nd, 2005 03:37 PM

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Hah! They stole that idea! And guess who they stole it from?!

Strategia_In_Ultima

September 22nd, 2005 04:23 PM

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Yusuf Islam?

Emperor's Child

September 22nd, 2005 05:12 PM

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NullAshton said:
Science is weirder than fiction. Remember that.

Recall that in the days when start trek was first shot, computers were as large as a house and only performed calculations roughly equivalent to our calculators of today.

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