Macrofab Engineering Podcast

First Annual MacroFab Star Wars Christmas SpecialThis is a reupload of Episode 46 into one continuous podcast. Originally it  was broken into 4 parts. Vehicles of Star Wars Tie Fighters Hovercraft and 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. 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 1.08×1015 tonnes of steel. World wide production of steel is 1.3 billion tonnes a year which will take over 800K years to make en