starship-design: Re: FTL Drive designs

[TLG.van.der.Linden@tip.nl (Timothy van der Linden)]

Timothy writes:

>Steve VanDevender wrote:
>>
>>Kyle writes:
>>>an energy density of in excess of 10^28 w/cm
>>
>>I can't make any sense of that unit.  W/cm^2 makes sense for a radiating
>>surface, and W/cm^3 makes sense as a unit of power generated per volume
>>of reaction, but W/cm?  I can't figure out a way to interpret energy per
>>unit time per unit distance.
>
>My apologies. I meant W/cm^2. Please forgive this.

Are you sure, you are talking about density, so isn't it W/cm^3 ?