User blog:ThePerpetual/Request 5: Return to STRW, Bunker(?) Busting, and so forth

And by bunker, I mean mountain basically

So, here's this! Pretty self-explanatory, just going for low end (fragmentation)/mid end (violent fragmentation)/vaporization like the last time for all of this, except now, it's also blown 15 meters (a good ~50 feet) away from the epicenter of the lightning blast that blew this thing up in the time it takes for said lightning blast to flicker out. We even get a hollowness (80%, probably about right for a hidden bunker-type space I would think) given to us...

Let's get started.

2190 meters/452.71 px = 4.838 meters/px

Red Height: 4.838 *569 = 2752.8 meters Half of Red Width: 4.838 *(793/2) = 1918.3 meters Volume of Cone 1: 1.0608e+10 cubic meters

Blue Height: 4.838 *193 = 933.7 meters Half of Blue Width: 4.838 *(266/2) = 643.5 meters Volume of Cone 2: 4.0922e+8 cubic meters

Volume 1 - Volume 2 = 1.0199e+10 cubic meters,

Divided by 5 = 2.0398e+9 cubic meters

Or 2.0398e+15 cubic centimeters.

Fragmentation is 8 J/cc, and Violent Fragmentation is 69 J/cc, so...

2.0398e+15 *8 = 1.6318e+16 Joules 2.0398e+15 *69 = 1.4075e+17 Joules

And as for Vaporization... well, first, the mass:

2.0398e+9 m^3 *2750 kg/m^3 = 5.0965e+12 kg

After that? Yeah, all the usual assumptions in place.


 * Specific Heat: 821.46 J/kg*K
 * Boiling Point: 2230 Celsius
 * ΔT: (2230 - 23) = 2207
 * Latent Heat of Fusion: 947657.98
 * Latent Heat of Vaporization: 6077872

(5.0965e+12 kg * 821.46 * 2207) + (5.0965e+12 kg * (947657.98 + 6077872)) =...

4.5045e+19 Joules.

Now, I'm not listing out tonnage, yet, because I still need to find the Kinetic Energy of the mass dispersal (Which applies to all three, not just the first two: vapor still has mass. Also, as you're about to see Spinoirr, the way this's set up would have your "high-end" be the lowest value if it didn't get this added to it.)

We have the mass, and the distance, now we just need a timeframe to figure out our velocity... fortunately, in the span of time before the lightning disperses? Well, | according to this a lightning flash is made up of multiple strokes, usually four, each of which is ~30 microseconds. So, 30 *4 = 120 microseconds is the timeframe for moving 15 meters.

15 meters/(0.00012) seconds = 125000 m/sec

Plugging it into the kinetic energy calculator, yields...

3.9816e+22 Joules. Or, 9.52 Teratons of TNT: Country level... the energy from the actual busting isn't even a blip on the radar from up here.

Remember, kids! "Kinetic Energy: not even once."

Final Yield
Bunker Busting at the speed of Fast: 9.52+ Teratons of TNT apparently