Star Trek: Power Generation

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Voyager power generation:

Mass lightening factor estimate: 4 million(Deja Q)
Voyager Mass: 700,000 metric tons

700,000/4,000,000=175 kilograms

Voyager speed: 0.8c

E=1/2(175)239833966^2
E=87.5(5.7520331e+16)
E=5.033029e+18 joules


Note: Warp Drive is implied to require far more energy.

Where are you getting the information that they lower a ships mass as part of the standard propulsion system?

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Voyager power generation:

Mass lightening factor estimate: 4 million(Deja Q)
Voyager Mass: 700,000 metric tons

700,000/4,000,000=175 kilograms

Voyager speed: 0.8c

E=1/2(175)239833966^2
E=87.5(5.7520331e+16)
E=5.033029e+18 joules


Note: Warp Drive is implied to require far more energy.

Where are you getting the information that they lower a ships mass as part of the standard propulsion system?

Good question. The answer to that is: I don't know. Probably remembering a star trek myth.

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Good question. The answer to that is: I don't know. Probably remembering a star trek myth.

TNG: Deja Q has the Enterprise-D temporarily low the gravitational constant in a small area. Warp fields were involved, but so were modifications to the ship, and it was treated as thinking outside the box.
http://www.chakoteya.net/NextGen/161.htm

DS9: Emissary they modify shields to reduce the station's inertial mass, but this again was thinking outside the box, and modifying systems to function in ways not intended.
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/top ... rtial-mass
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/top ... ional-mass
http://www.chakoteya.net/DS9/401.htm

One thing to keep in mind is that TOS on implied impulse may be a slow faster then light drive.