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    139 days ago

    and all would generate the same if thrown to something capable of lossless e=mc^2 conversion (maybe a black hole)

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      88 days ago

      sadly black holes go to something like 42% conversion (source: some minute physics video i think)

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        18 days ago

        That’s quite interesting. Is it because of the light produced when the materia starts spinning around in the accretion disk in very high speeds? I doubt hawking radiation would do anywhere near that much

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          18 days ago

          https://youtu.be/t-O-Qdh7VvQ

          No, It is actually the light produced that we can actually use as a energy source, the limiting thing is, before completely loosing its kinetic energy to frictional heat, stuff falls into black hole, from where we can not get anymore energy back. If black hole is stationary, then its 6%, and if its spinning (and assuming the fastest spinning theoretically possible) - 42% (spinning black holes are smaller and have smaller radius of no-return

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            28 days ago

            Ahhh alright I was thinking the black hole converting mass to energy for itself, not as if we were to try utilize it