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AlexanderHowl · 02-22-2018, 08:34 AM

I derive PP from the Weapon Battery Outputs. If we assume that effective laser weapons have a 50% efficiency (otherwise the waste heat would broil the occupants of the spacecraft), then a SM+10 Major Battery would require 300 MW of energy (2 × (3 GJ/20 seconds)). The end result would be around 30 kW per metric ton of spacecraft (I just convert tons 1:1 to metric tons because there is no way that any reasonable spacefaring civilization will not use metric units).

Since antimatter production has a realistic maximum efficiency of 50% (half of the energy produces antimatter and half the energy produces matter), the maximum amount of energy for realistic production would be 30 kW per metric ton (assuming 2 PP). With 90 TJ required per gram of antimatter (E=mc^2), the maximum possible realistic production would be 12 micrograms per hour per metric ton of spacecraft (120 milligrams per hour for an SM+10 spacecraft). From the cost of antimatter given in Ultratech, we can calculate maximum efficiency, meaning that a TL12 civilization produces antimatter at a 41.67% efficiecy, TL11 8.33%, TL 10 0.0833%, and TL9 0.00833%. An SM+10 factory would produce 100 milligrams per hour at TL12, 20 milligrams per hour at TL11, 200 micrograms per hour at TL10, and 20 micrograms per hour at TL9.

02-22-2018, 08:34 AM	#16
AlexanderHowl Join Date: Feb 2016	Re: [Spaceships] Antimatter Factory I derive PP from the Weapon Battery Outputs. If we assume that effective laser weapons have a 50% efficiency (otherwise the waste heat would broil the occupants of the spacecraft), then a SM+10 Major Battery would require 300 MW of energy (2 × (3 GJ/20 seconds)). The end result would be around 30 kW per metric ton of spacecraft (I just convert tons 1:1 to metric tons because there is no way that any reasonable spacefaring civilization will not use metric units). Since antimatter production has a realistic maximum efficiency of 50% (half of the energy produces antimatter and half the energy produces matter), the maximum amount of energy for realistic production would be 30 kW per metric ton (assuming 2 PP). With 90 TJ required per gram of antimatter (E=mc^2), the maximum possible realistic production would be 12 micrograms per hour per metric ton of spacecraft (120 milligrams per hour for an SM+10 spacecraft). From the cost of antimatter given in Ultratech, we can calculate maximum efficiency, meaning that a TL12 civilization produces antimatter at a 41.67% efficiecy, TL11 8.33%, TL 10 0.0833%, and TL9 0.00833%. An SM+10 factory would produce 100 milligrams per hour at TL12, 20 milligrams per hour at TL11, 200 micrograms per hour at TL10, and 20 micrograms per hour at TL9.