Kevin Knuth
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So most of the things we make are like 20% efficient at best, right?
So let's say they're really good at this.
They can get to 99% efficiency.
That means you've got a 1% inefficiency.
1% of 1,000 gigawatts is like 11 gigawatts of power.
That means 11 gigawatts of power is going into waste heat.
the thing would melt.
So now what's happening?
Are they really more efficient than 99%?
Or do we have something wrong?
Are we looking at this the wrong way maybe?
Maybe they're not actually moving in such a way that takes that much power.
I don't exactly.
Warp drive is certainly on the table.
But that too is messy because we don't know enough about...
Since there has been theoretical work done on warp bubbles, we don't really know how these would interact with matter.
So what does a warp bubble do in an atmosphere?
I don't think it's looked into that.
So these things are strange because they don't appear to be interacting with the atmosphere at all.
There's no sonic boom.