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Now I wonder how powerful one of these arrays should be before it shoves Earth with noticeable momentum. You know, as a reaction.
by ByThyGrace 3y ago
Now I wonder how powerful one of these arrays should be before it shoves Earth with noticeable momentum. You know, as a reaction.
- adhesive_wombat 3y agoIncident solar radiation of 1kW/m² is something like 100 million gigawatts and the force from that is about half a billion Newtons, or the weight of an Iowa-class battleship.
- ilyt 3y agoAssuming this guy on quora didn't fuck up math [1], "multiple suns worth of photons" - [1] https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-total-radiation-pressure-of-all-light-emitted-by-the-sun https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-total-radiation-pressure-o...