There's a slide in Manley's video that says gross vehicle weight is 11,000 kg. And 450 RPM @ 100 m diameter, so 2 km/s. Kinetic energy for vehicle is 22 GJ. Equ

There's a slide in Manley's video that says gross vehicle weight is 11,000 kg. And 450 RPM @ 100 m diameter, so 2 km/s. Kinetic energy for vehicle is 22 GJ. Equivalents: * 5 metric tons TNT * 1/3000 Little Boy atomic bomb * 4 barrels of crude oil (!) * Boil 2,300 gallons of water * 0.25 mg of matter converted to energy * Enough energy to melt two 11,000 kg iron counterweights, with 2 GJ left over * A magnitude 3.7 earthquake [1] [1] https://www.volcanodiscovery.com/earthquakes/energy.html https://www.volcanodiscovery.com/earthquakes/energy.html