OK, I was just thinking(dangerous I know)
In the SG-1 episode The road not taken ( The one where Sam ends up in an alternate universe and uses Merlin's device to phase shift the planet)
During the episode the entire power creation ability of the USA is rewired into a the device to save earth. It is stated that this capacity was designed to subsidise the ZPM in powering the chair(so as not to deplete the ZPM too quickly), although it doesn't anywhere near replace the ZPM's power. Using this info we can work out a value that is equivalent to only a small amount that the ZPM can produce.
In the episode the device requires a large amount of energy that is placed in capacitors to activate the device, it is hard to tell how long it takes these to charge off the supply but I would say 10 minutes.
This means that the ZPM could supply this power easily so using this we can work out the amount of power the ZPM can generate in seconds based around what the USA can produce.
The figures are based around the energy that the USA generated in a period of 1 year(2007 I think), as such it means that the value for ten minutes will be a lot lower than if maximum power was generated all of the time but it does give us an idea.
The amount of energy created in a year was, 4055 billion kilowatt hours.
So this is 4055000000000 KWh
That means that each day 4054999999635 KWh were produced.
Each hour : 168958333318 KWh
in 10 min : 28159722220 KWh
This means that a ZPM can create over 28159722220 KWh's is a few seconds, that is a massive amount. This shows a ZPM has a massive capacity and just gives a general idea.
I know it was never stated that a ZPM could power Merlin's device but I think that it is a safe bet that it could
Another way of looking at it is that the input was meant to subsidise a ZPM's power for the chair, this means that there isn't enough energy to power the chair coming in every second, this means that if we take the value of 28159722220 KWh in 10 minutes and turn this into per second thge energy input is:46932870KWh per second, this is an insane amount of power, enough to power a 60w bulb for 782214506 hours or 32592271 days or 89293 years.
And this amount of energy is only subsidising the output of a ZPM not matching it, and we can safely assume that a ZPM is at no where near its maximum output when powering just a defence chair,
I think this again put in perspective ancient technology compared with ours, or even the asgards.
Comments, poking fun at what I have said, etc, etc... is welcomed :-)
Or you could just tell me I'm insane again...
In the SG-1 episode The road not taken ( The one where Sam ends up in an alternate universe and uses Merlin's device to phase shift the planet)
During the episode the entire power creation ability of the USA is rewired into a the device to save earth. It is stated that this capacity was designed to subsidise the ZPM in powering the chair(so as not to deplete the ZPM too quickly), although it doesn't anywhere near replace the ZPM's power. Using this info we can work out a value that is equivalent to only a small amount that the ZPM can produce.
In the episode the device requires a large amount of energy that is placed in capacitors to activate the device, it is hard to tell how long it takes these to charge off the supply but I would say 10 minutes.
This means that the ZPM could supply this power easily so using this we can work out the amount of power the ZPM can generate in seconds based around what the USA can produce.
The figures are based around the energy that the USA generated in a period of 1 year(2007 I think), as such it means that the value for ten minutes will be a lot lower than if maximum power was generated all of the time but it does give us an idea.
The amount of energy created in a year was, 4055 billion kilowatt hours.
So this is 4055000000000 KWh
That means that each day 4054999999635 KWh were produced.
Each hour : 168958333318 KWh
in 10 min : 28159722220 KWh
This means that a ZPM can create over 28159722220 KWh's is a few seconds, that is a massive amount. This shows a ZPM has a massive capacity and just gives a general idea.
I know it was never stated that a ZPM could power Merlin's device but I think that it is a safe bet that it could
Another way of looking at it is that the input was meant to subsidise a ZPM's power for the chair, this means that there isn't enough energy to power the chair coming in every second, this means that if we take the value of 28159722220 KWh in 10 minutes and turn this into per second thge energy input is:46932870KWh per second, this is an insane amount of power, enough to power a 60w bulb for 782214506 hours or 32592271 days or 89293 years.
And this amount of energy is only subsidising the output of a ZPM not matching it, and we can safely assume that a ZPM is at no where near its maximum output when powering just a defence chair,
I think this again put in perspective ancient technology compared with ours, or even the asgards.
Comments, poking fun at what I have said, etc, etc... is welcomed :-)
Or you could just tell me I'm insane again...
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