Energy Source

Re: stargate energy sources

On Earth, the stargate is supplied by the Cheyenne Mountain Base's own internal power -- which I believe is a nuclear reactor, though this may be incorrect. On other planets the question becomes more interesting. Clearly there is some kind of power source present; I believe that it is supplied by the DHD, which is why the Earth gate needs an external power source -- the Earth DHD was lost. Of course, the DHD needs to be in close proximity to the stargate in order to supply the power, and let's not go near wondering how the energy gets from the DHD to the stargate itself...nice radiation...
 
Originally posted by UnimatrixZero
Hello,

which energy source supplies the star gate?
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kree sha,

the stargate can absorb any kind of energy like energy from sun, wind energy, radiation, heat or the good old electrical one ... (think there are some more)
it transforms the input energy into the energy needed for the stargate to estabish the wormhole..

kree sha
 
It might be that the DHD simply taps into an energy source like vacuum energy.
 
Vaccuum energy is base around the fact that a quantum vaccuum is full of pairs particles (particle + anti particle) that pop into and out of exsistance in the planck time. If these paritcles can be captured, the energy can be absorbed from a quantum vacuum. For more information see following page
http://www.ldolphin.org/energetic.html
 
True enough, but I think that, no matter how advanced it may be, the stargate probably couldn't manage on vacuum energy alone; assuming that it requires a fairly substantial amount of energy to open a wormhole, which seems reasonable (especially considering the seismic waves it generates -- and how much force would be needed to turn that ring I wonder?) it would take a heck of a long time to store up enough vacuum energy to generate just one wormhole.

Vacuum energy might be one source of its power (and a most excellent source too, since it's probably the only one that can't be blocked completely) but I am fairly sure it must convert other energy as well. The sun comes to mind, since on most planets the stargate is out in the open, and the sun would certainly provide a fairly substantial amount of radiant energy as long as the conversion system were efficient. However, I still stand by my argument that, as we have seen, the gate needs to be supplied energy (this has been demonstrated in several episodes, one of them in Season Four). Without a constant supply, it only stores enough power for one wormhole, and that wormhole is sustained for only a brief period of time. This being the case, the only logical reason I can see that the Earth gate needs to be supplied energy, while the other gates we have seen do not, is that the energy is supplied directly by the DHD -- the Earth DHD, of course, was lost. This being the case, the gate is obviously still good at converting any power source to its needs, since I doubt that the Airforce techs had such a good idea of how it worked that they could develop a special system whereby to feed it energy.
 
the_Brainz

If vacuum energy can be tapped then the energy available to the stargate would be enormous. There is as much energy in an atom sized volume of vacuum as there is if all of the matter in the Universe was instantaneously turned into energy by matter-antimatter annihlation. I beleive that vaccum energy can be accessed using an effect called the cassini effect. If two plates are held 0.1 nanometers apart the pressure between them is equal to 1 atmosphere. This fact can be used in building engines and power sources etc at the molecular level. As such, at the macroscopic level large amounts of vacuum energy could be used at any one time.

The seismic waves are actually gravametric waves caused by the wormhole. Which is bending spacetime in order to create a link between two points large distances apart and in doing so is emitting large numbers of gravitons.
 
Hmm. True enough; I hadn't considered what you mention about vacuum energy. I didn't really investigate, which was inviting trouble. However, if this is the case as you say, then the stargate surely cannot use vacuum energy as its power source, as the Earth gate would require no external power feed.

Pity.
 
the_Brainz

The stargate doesn't absorb vacuum energy, rather it is the DHD that collects it. This is why the Earth stargate requires an external power feed.
 
Aha! Why didn't I think of that before? Excellent, we can combine the very cool vacuum energy idea with the DHD idea, and it all works ;)
 
is is safe to assume the DHD has a nahquita (sp) power source which powers the gate via an underground connection..
In this case why dont the tau'ri bring in the DHD from the antarctic to power their gate, thus cutting down the power bill that the senator was moaning about in Season 1 "Politics"....

Also why dont the locals of all these other planets tap into the stargate/DHD's power source to power their own stuff...?
 
Don't they discuss the energy source during repairs on the DHD in "Torments of Tantalus" in series 1?

I recall the gate itself acts as a capacitor, but the implication was that the DHD provided the energy... but of course it could collect it from all around as well.

We need someone with a huge TV, a superb DVD player and "The Fifth Race" DVD to transcribe the plans for the DHD that were generated in that episode and see what the writers came up with - I could read some of it but it was the final steps of the fixing instructions.
 
I have a 50 inch tv with Toshiba's latest nuon enhanced DVD. Excellent zooming and single frame capabilities. But I'd hate to do it and just find out that it's a schematic for a 25 year old computer full of transistors!
 
off topic... which toshiba tv is that? is it the rear projection ones? they look yummy... :)
 
Projection. Don't remember model number, but bought it aboutr 2 years ago for around $1800 US. Y0ou can get the model that replaced it at places like Price Club ("member only" discount warehouse) for $1200.

With my low pay I had to save a year to buy it and did a lot of research. Toshiba uses 9 inch tubes instead of 5 and 7 inchers others do so you get a lot more color saturation and 18% more contrast. You can also set the balck to "darker than black" (like you can on some DVD players now) which is real nice for widescreen movies.

It also has a user adjustable "divergence" control, so you can adjust the red and blue "edges" around images to disappear. Some tv's say they have it but don't. The Toshiba lets you adjust the overall picture with a central "+" target and then select 8 more locations (corners and middles of edges) so that ALL are clean.

It also uses "Colorstream" input, which has been adopted by most others now as "component video." This lets you run your video source directly to the color guns. The step from coax to RCA primariily improves audio, and moving to S-video makes a major immprovement of the picture. Colorstream doesn't always look better than s-video, but with a DVD that's been digitally mastered it makes as big a jump as s-video does over coax. With everything set properly and tweaked a bit, moves such as End of Days looks like film.

In the case of a DVD, when you go through anything else, you are converting digital to analog, and then the tv tuner converts the analog back to digital. With colorstream/component video, you're going digital to digital. This is another reason that I've never understood people who run their video through a reciever. The more electronics you put a signal through the more that signal can degrade. (And the more cables you have to buy.)

When deciding on what size to get, I doscovered that the image height of a full frame movie on a 27 inch tv was about the same as widescreen on a 50 incher. The next size that made sense to me was 60 or greater since the 55 only added about 1 inch to the image but a few hundred more in cost.
 
Almost forgot. A word of warning. Don't play video games on a projection tv. The screen that the image is shown on isn't like the phosphor screens in a regular tv. For those when the screen gets burned by the parts of a video game that never move on a screen you can have the screen "fixed" by a technician or sometimes "fix" it by leaving a bright white image on for a while. The screen in the projection tv has to be replaced, and Toshiba told me that it would run around $150.

BTW. After about 2 years of constantly being used (I normally program at home, with the tv on for backround noise) up to 20 or so hours at a time the image is still as good as when I first bought it. Can't say that about others I've seen.

I've known the president of our company for 8 years longer than I've worked for him. He saw my tv and bought the same model. Then some on the Bopard of Directors saw his and bought the same model or the larger versions. You'd think Toshiba would give me anotehr DVD player or something for all the sales.
 
the dhd has a naquedah core, that's what the big red button taps into. did someone ask why the locals don't tap into the dhd power source? most of them are too primitive, the rest simply don't need to.

~Shu Hunter
:upto: stargate fan{atic}
 
Doesn't naquedah run out after a while? I doubt that there's a big Petrol ship run by the ancients, that zips around refilling the DHDs when noone's looking.

Oh, and incidentally, how often do you think the Stargate network is used? I mean, especially when it comes to the Go'uld. From what we've seen, they use the gates a lot. So do you think that the Go'uld have a way of refilling the DHD?
 
btw, didn't i read somewhere that the stargate only reacts with nutrinos - nothing else - which means that these particles and antiparticles 's energy would somehow have to be converted to a nutrino (by bombarding something with alpha particles? - Chadwick's experiment) ....... just thinking out loud ...... :)
 
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