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    6 months ago

    … by an astounding margin.

    The paper is paywalled and I am too lazy to look for a free/open link, but the shown graphs indicate many squared meters of energy concentrations of 1 - 10 * 10^39 joules.

    The entire energy output of the Sun, in a year, is around 10^34 joules. 6.6 * 10^39 joules is apparently the estimated total mass energy of the Moon, if you basically perfectly E = mc^2 transformed it into pure energy.

    In 2010 the estimated total energy consumption of humans on Earth was 5 * 10^20 joules.

    So we just need something around ten billion * ten billion more joules than that, presumably generated by something i dont know, naval frigate sized?

    Yeah. Faaaaaar off indeed.