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No. Escape Velocity (https://www.wikihow.com/Calculate-Escape-Velocity https://www.wikihow.com/Calculate-Escape-Velocity) is: 11.2 km/s. From the article, they
by SapporoChris 5y ago
No. Escape Velocity (https://www.wikihow.com/Calculate-Escape-Velocity https://www.wikihow.com/Calculate-Escape-Velocity) is: 11.2 km/s.
From the article, they've only achieved 8,047 km/h or 2.23 km/s.
Also, flinging waste from your home into the air and hoping it won't come back down sounds like a really bad idea.
- jdmichal 5y agoJust for giggles, that works out to ~17.42 kilowatt-hours per kilogram of mass, just for the pure kinetic energy. Then you have inefficiencies like electricty-to-kinetic-energy conversion losses and atmospheric drag to contend with. It's honestly a smaller number than I expected it to be. So I suspect that those inefficiencies add up pretty fast.