Tag: Kardashev scale

Part 3 of World Build­ing for Sci­ence fic­tion: This is the def­i­n­i­tion of the Kar­da­shev Scale.  Since it is a mea­sure of the pow­er gen­er­at­ed by a civ­i­liza­tion, it is titled: All about Pow­er. In case you’ve missed the pre­vi­ous posts in the thread, Part 1 begins here. The pre­vi­ous post in this thread, Part 2 is here.   Image by Pix­abay avail­able on Pex­els The Kar­da­shev Scale The Kar­da­shev scale mea­sures the tech­nol­o­gy of a civ­i­liza­tion.  It express­es the details in one para­me­ter: the pow­er gen­er­at­ed by the civ­i­liza­tion. The pow­er deliv­ered to the Earth from the Sun (approx­i­mate­ly […]

The Kar­da­shev scale is a mea­sure of the tech­no­log­i­cal achieve­ment of a civ­i­liza­tion.  Tra­di­tion­al­ly, there have been three lev­els on the Kar­da­shev scale: Type 1 – cor­re­spond­ing to a plan­e­tary civ­i­liza­tion, Type 2 – cor­re­spond­ing to a stel­lar civ­i­liza­tion, and Type 3 – cor­re­spond­ing to a galac­tic civ­i­liza­tion. The types of civ­i­liza­tion cor­re­spond to the amount of pow­er the civ­i­liza­tion wields.  Here is the math­e­mat­ics of the Kar­da­shev scale. The Kar­da­shev scale is defined by the expres­sion: K℗=(log P – 6)/10 where P is the pow­er gen­er­at­ed by the civ­i­liza­tion expressed in Watts. For plan­e­tary civ­i­liza­tions P=1016 W, K℗=1 (e.g. […]