Stupid, but fun (I hope.) question.
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I'll assume you mean electrical horsepower. 1 horsepower is equal to 746 watts.
I don't have my Technical Manual in front of me, but I got a M/AM reactor power output of 25,300 MW from this site: http://www.therpgportal.com/startrek/gurpsst2.shtml
Using basic division, that would give a Galaxy-class main reactor 33,914,209.115 horsepower (electrical).
That's a lot of ponies.
I don't have my Technical Manual in front of me, but I got a M/AM reactor power output of 25,300 MW from this site: http://www.therpgportal.com/startrek/gurpsst2.shtml
Using basic division, that would give a Galaxy-class main reactor 33,914,209.115 horsepower (electrical).
That's a lot of ponies.
I'll assume you mean electrical horsepower. 1 horsepower is equal to 746 watts.
I don't have my Technical Manual in front of me, but I got a M/AM reactor power output of 25,300 MW from this site: http://www.therpgportal.com/startrek/gurpsst2.shtml
Using basic division, that would give a Galaxy-class main reactor 33,914,209.115 horsepower (electrical).
That's a lot of ponies.
Damn, I thought it'd be a lot more than that to create a warp field to go FTL.
I guess they found a way. Current models for warping space-time for propulsion in the way that Star Trek does require somewhere between the energy produced by converting the entire mass of Jupiter into energy and the entire energy output of all the stars in the galaxy for a year (I've heard a couple different projections).
Not only does a M/AM reactor in Star Trek power the warp drive, but also nearly all the ships power, including multi-megaton weapons and shields that can deflect them.
Edit - OOPS! The page wasn't loading properly last night, and I mistakenly used the power output for a Sovereign-class reactor, rather than a Galaxy-class. The Galaxy-class lists as 20,000 MW. That gives us 26,809,651.474 horsepower.
Not only does a M/AM reactor in Star Trek power the warp drive, but also nearly all the ships power, including multi-megaton weapons and shields that can deflect them.
Edit - OOPS! The page wasn't loading properly last night, and I mistakenly used the power output for a Sovereign-class reactor, rather than a Galaxy-class. The Galaxy-class lists as 20,000 MW. That gives us 26,809,651.474 horsepower.
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Well, if you've got a warp core that every second slams a ten grams of matter into ten grams of antimatter, you've got a maximum power output of about 100 billion megawatts. Assuming half of the reactor product can't be used to create energy (say, half of it is neutrinos or something) then that's 50 billion megawatts. Assuming the reactor is only 10% efficient, then you've got 5 billion megawatts.
At that very pessimistic estimate, that's about 3,730 billion horsepower.
At that very pessimistic estimate, that's about 3,730 billion horsepower.
I wouldn't buy it if I were you: you'd get more energy than that from a quantity of antimatter the size of a fruit fly.
Fine. But that still leaves a pretty huge number for your "full power" doesn't it?
Anyway, if you've got a fusion reactor with an output of 20 gigawatts (enough power to service a good sized country) a matter/antimatter reactor would be superfluous anyway unless you need some of that power for propulsion even when the ship is idling.
Data in "The Dauphin" noted that the communications array contacting them was broadcasting at a terrawatt which was more then the output of the Enterprise D's entire power generation system, so we know it's not that high.
Actually, it was Riker. And considering the ship's photon torpedoes have more power than that, I think he is probably just referring to the ship's communication rig.
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