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You could drop matter in there and get 40% of the mass back as energy. Not that it's useful energy for us at the moment, but a more advanced civilization could
by DrBazza 5y ago
You could drop matter in there and get 40% of the mass back as energy. Not that it's useful energy for us at the moment, but a more advanced civilization could probably learn how to ensure most comes out as polar jets and harvest that somehow.
https://web.stanford.edu/~wilkinsd/docs/posters/BlackHolesPoster.pdf https://web.stanford.edu/~wilkinsd/docs/posters/BlackHolesPo...
- darepublic 5y agoYou could use it to execute prisoners perhaps. Death by blackhole
- teknopaul 5y agoThe CO2 cost of getting the prisoners from the prison outside earth's gravity well and on their way to planet 9 seems prohibitive. One more reason for rehabilitation as prison policy.
- darepublic 5y agoyou'd have to space bus the prisoners, a few hundred thousand at a time. during the journey they might mutiny, take over the ship and set a course for a nearby livable planet.
- mrfusion 5y agoEasier to build a Dyson sphere around it than the sun.
- wongarsu 5y agoA Dyson sphere around a body with 4.5cm radius sounds quite manageable. I wonder how small a Dyson sphere could be with current materials. I imagine it's mostly limited by gravitational forces at that point?
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- dnautics 5y agoor some sort of roman war bird.
- jsjohnst 5y ago> roman war bird Roman? Did you maybe mean Romulan?
- adrusi 5y agoI think you can also extract energy from it by slingshoting an object off the black hole to draw energy from the black hole's spin.
- p1mrx 5y agoWould it be useful to have a large power plant at the edge of the solar system? There's not much out there to power.
- DrBazza 5y agoMicrowave transmission could send it somewhere else... wirelessly: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless_power_transfer#Microwaves https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless_power_transfer#Microw...