Macrofab Engineering Podcast

Podcast NotesPart A  Vehicles of Star Wars  Tie Fighters: Twin Ion Engine. This tech exists but its super low power but efficient. Hovercraft and levitation. Land speeders, Pod Racers, Repulsor Lift technology. Magnetic levitation? Power: Fission batteries? A AA battery weighs around 23g. Convert it all to energy e=mc^2 and you get 2 quintillion Joules of power. 2,067,136,911,094,680,572 Joules to be precise. 16 Teslas to levitate a frog. This consumed 4MW of energy according to the paper. A “common frog” weighs 22.7g. Compact car weighs about 1200kg. So that is 211,453 and some change MW or Joules per second. 8.4million Teslas.  This is 211,453,000,000 Watts. A Fission AA battery could power this for 9,775,869seconds or around 113 Days. Weapons of Star Wars  Death Star  Cost of Steel alone would be $852 quadrillion which is 13,000 times the worlds GDP. How much steel  required to make it? It is 160km in diameter and they modeled the Death Star to have a density similar to a modern warship. Which gives us 1