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minus-square@Blue_Morpholink4•edit-26 months agoThe energy requirements of replicators are unfathomably gigantic compared to regular industrial manufacturing. It takes 1.6 Trillion MJ of energy to make an 8kg Bicycle. A nuclear reactor generates 1000 MJ/s. That means you would need 50 nuclear reactors to make 1 bicycle a year with a replicator. It’s why the TNG writers claim the Enterprise generates 12.75 exawatts. They did the math.
The energy requirements of replicators are unfathomably gigantic compared to regular industrial manufacturing.
It takes 1.6 Trillion MJ of energy to make an 8kg Bicycle.
A nuclear reactor generates 1000 MJ/s.
That means you would need 50 nuclear reactors to make 1 bicycle a year with a replicator.
It’s why the TNG writers claim the Enterprise generates 12.75 exawatts. They did the math.