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| The Death Star Would Cost $7.8 Octillion a Day |
| 2016-12-05 |
| [Fortune] Its planet-destroying laser is scary, but its energy bills are truly terrifying. The British energy supplier Ovo has put some very well-spent hours into a comprehensive calculation of the operating costs of the Death Star, which will return to the spotlight in the December 16th movie Rogue One. They conclude that operating the planet-destroying starbase would cost 6.2 octillion British pounds, or $7.8 octillion, per day—that’s $7,800,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000. To put this piece in perspective -- it's just advertising for the movie... To put that absurdly large number in perspective, $7.8 octillion is more than 100 trillion times the $70 trillion annual global economic activity of Earth, or 30 trillion times the roughly $200 trillion in wealth on our little blue planet. Ovo’s analysis, conducted in collaboration with physics blogger Stephen Skolnick and Dartmouth mathematics Professor Alexander Barnett, approaches the granularity of a good business model (if your business is blowing up planets to intimidate a rebellious populace). A few of the highlighted line-items include about $52 billion per day for lighting, and $200 million per round of laundry. More at the link |
| Posted by:badanov |
| #12 #4 Wonder what a round of ammo costs? Especially considering the stormtroopers' aim. |
| Posted by: charger 2016-12-05 19:28 |
| #11 And they would put in screen doors instead of bulkheads, and pocket the difference. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2016-12-05 18:10 |
| #10 Resist every effort to downsize Whilst praying the damned thing don't capsize; Maintain the facade Till you've sold them abroad And cash in on bulk sales to your allies. |
| Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220 2016-12-05 17:25 |
| #9 If you could have the same price tag but have it demilitarized they would have passed it yesterday. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2016-12-05 17:11 |
| #8 How soon will California vote to approve this project? |
| Posted by: Airandee 2016-12-05 16:04 |
| #7 Yeah the thing is expensive but their tax base is massive. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2016-12-05 15:40 |
| #6 Someone else will have to try the solar powered toilet first. It ain't gonna be my *ss on that thing... |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2016-12-05 11:04 |
| #5 One of my fav parts of "the force awakens" was that the new death planet used solar energy to destroy the New Republic |
| Posted by: lord garth 2016-12-05 10:39 |
| #4 Wonder what a round of ammo costs? |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2016-12-05 09:43 |
| #3 Probably a good bit more if Lockheed Martin was the winning bidder... |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2016-12-05 09:22 |
| #2 "...$200 million per round of laundry." I think the Empire had easy cleaning uniforms. |
| Posted by: lord garth 2016-12-05 06:39 |
| #1 It'd be much cheaper to elect a traitorous spineless Muslim symp to the Whitehouse and just wait a few years. |
| Posted by: gorb 2016-12-05 02:19 |