[extropy-chat] Bainbridg today in Transvision06 on personality capture vs info-resurrection

[Keith Henson]

At 04:32 PM 8/21/2006 +0100, John wrote:
> > That sounds way high.  The solar burn rate is about 1500 tons of mass to
> > energy per second.  The mass deficit is a little under 1% so fusing
> > 150,000
> > tons per second would do it.
>
>According to my resources... [grin]
>
>"The Sun's energy output (3.86e33 ergs/second or 386 billion billion
>megawatts) is produced by nuclear fusion reactions. Each second about
>700,000,000 tons of hydrogen are converted to about 695,000,000 tons of
>helium and 5,000,000 tons (=3.86e33 ergs) of energy..."

You are right.  That's what comes of using memory instead of the 
Wikipedia.  But the point is that there is plenty of energy to get from one 
star to the next if you tape the star's energy.

Keith