[AR] Re: Fw: Hydrogen / oxygen news
- From: David Weinshenker <daze39@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: arocket@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2013 17:54:06 -0700
Henry Spencer wrote:
> At the upper extreme, big
> rocket engines typically are multi-gigawatt machines.
Clark calculates the kinetic power of the Saturn V first stage
exhaust as about 41 gigawatts... this is on the same scale as
the outage of the Eastern Interconnection of the North American
power grid in August 2003. (Approximately 60 GW of generation
capacity was initially tripped off line - IIRC, roughly 40 GW
was still out of service a day later.)
-dave w
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