What I would like to hear if anybody knows how to calculate how much
matter does flow into the hole, given that the temperature of the
accretion disc is going to blow away a lot of matter too; I guess a state
develops where radiation pressure and gravity balances each other.
On Mon, 23 Dec 1996, Eugene Leitl wrote:
> P.S. One even more outlandish way to generate power, would be to create
> tiny singularities, then feeding them with matter until their blackbody
> Hawking emission maximum moves into the visible range.
Is the visible range the best? I envision building tiny dyson spheres
around singularities kept in place with electromagnetic fields and fed
garbage matter so as not to grow to hot or cold.
> But how can one
> create singularities? The sun is losing about 2 Mt of matter/s in form of
> radiation, if we could harness some of it... E.g. concentrating _a lot_
> of laser beams on a tiny focus, setting up a particle accelerator in the
> solar orbit, imploding a piece of matter by an antimatter shell
> (provided, we can generate antimatter much better efficiency than now)
I think using grasers focused on a point was how Crane suggested it
could be done. Bosons is probably the way to go, but they tend to be
rather light. Maybe a Bose condensate could do the trick? The energies
needed are large, but not impossible to come by if you have a dyson shell
at your disposal. And once you have your hole factory, then you can bathe
in energy...
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