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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.