[AR] Re: Fw: Hydrogen / oxygen news
- From: Keith Henson <hkeithhenson@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: arocket@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2013 18:48:55 -0800
If you google saturn V gw the number 190 GW comes up. I don't know
what the correct number is.
On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 4:54 PM, David Weinshenker <daze39@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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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