Yep, raw material and a net energy loss.
The Federation might have both in abundance, but I highly doubt that much energy consumption is allowed.
Yep, raw material and a net energy loss.
The Federation might have both in abundance, but I highly doubt that much energy consumption is allowed.
SatyrSack@feddit.org 3 days ago
Like… some energy just gets destroyed in the process? How does that work?
ValueSubtracted@startrek.website 3 days ago
It gets converted into another form, as in the operation of any machine. I’m not arguing that it’s destroyed.
Darohan@lemmy.zip 3 days ago
The Laws of Thermodynamics say you will always lose some energy to heat when energy is used to affect a change. I have to imagine this would be particularly so when energy is converted to matter since that’s very involved, but I’m not a physicist so I can’t confirm that.
Come to think of it, this means that industrial replication plants and shipyards would likely be incredibly hot places, due to the inevitable loss to heat in replicating massive components.
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 3 days ago
i’m sure the federation has good heat pumps and such