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I've done some calculations for a bit of fun. Feel free to add your own. Or correct mine.

100,000 horsepower is 745 699.872 watts, or 2.6 trillion joules per hour. So what things are as powerful as Astro? Or what could provide enough power?

You could have 18,600 square kilometres of solar panels (based on the size and output of Germany's Bavaria Solarpark). This is roughly the size of Fiji, or New Caledonia. A bit bigger than Kuwait. Bigger than Conneticut but smaller than New Jersey.

You could have 1000 Bugatti Veyrons.

Based on the fuel consumption of the Bugatti, Astro could be powered off 84 litres of petrol per second.

Anyone want to do the calculations for nuclear power? Astro is atomic, after all.

I have heard of a diesel freighter boat with 100,000 horsepower... But that's considering that the engine is humungous! I believe I had heard of it when I was watching something similar to "Modern Marvels". That could have been it, but it was so long ago. ^.^

I had done a calculation somewhere else to try to figure out for what distance he was supposed to be able to fly... But I think I was really tired when I did the calculation, so I don't know if it made sense. I'll try to find my post!

Edit: I found it here. I had written:

By the way, did you know that a human has 0.1 horsepower?

Astro could theoretically move 6250 pounds over a mile for one minute. Wait, how much does he weight (s?)? Something around 75 pounds? If so, then he could cover 8 333 miles in one minute, which means he would need around 30 minutes to reach the moon and a minimum of 70 hours to reach Mars. That is if I did the math right... But I think so!

DrFrag wrote:Anyone want to do the calculations for nuclear power? Astro is atomic, after all.

I have done some nuclear physics at school, I will try to unburry my courses somewhere

DrFrag wrote:I've done some calculations for a bit of fun. Feel free to add your own. Or correct mine.

100,000 horsepower is 745 699.872 watts, or 2.6 trillion joules per hour. So what things are as powerful as Astro? Or what could provide enough power?

You could have 18,600 square kilometres of solar panels (based on the size and output of Germany's Bavaria Solarpark). This is roughly the size of Fiji, or New Caledonia. A bit bigger than Kuwait. Bigger than Conneticut but smaller than New Jersey.

You could have 1000 Bugatti Veyrons.

Based on the fuel consumption of the Bugatti, Astro could be powered off 84 litres of petrol per second.

Anyone want to do the calculations for nuclear power? Astro is atomic, after all.

wow!... thats intertusing... thats alot of power imagan Pluto with 1,000,000 horse power

I couldn't find back my courses notes However, I found all informations I needed on the Internet to remember how it worked
I did "quick and dirty" calculations, and found that 100000 horse power is roughly equivalent to the consumption of 9E-6 grams of Uranium-235 per second, that is 0.032 grams (32 milligrams) per hour.
Again, I may be wrong. I have no idea of how much Uranium-235 a nuclear plant uses for example, and I did the calculations for a pure product (I am not even sure that a nuclear plant uses a 50% pure product). If you are interested, I can dump my (dirty) calculations

That's more detailed than I expected. What's the typical output of a nuclear power station?

And do you think Astro uses fusion power? I'm thinking of the 80s series primarily. The 60s series seemed to be a liquid fuel, the 80s series seemed to be solid, and the 2003 series seemed to be purely electrical.

DrFrag wrote:That's more detailed than I expected. What's the typical output of a nuclear power station?

No idea. I wish I knew so I could check the validity of the result. 32 milligrams per hour seems really low, but at the same time, atoms hold a lot energy in their core only by the bindings.

And do you think Astro uses fusion power?

It seems unlikely that he uses fusion, as it needs a rather big device generating massive magnetic fields. I can't imagine Astro carrying such a device everywhere, even in his body But it's true that it is science fiction
I made the calculations for the fission of Uranium-235, but I can have a try with fusion if you want

Does anybody know if my previous calculation makes any sense at all?