Planck energy: ~10^19 GeV is approx 2 GJ per collision
Energy to vaporize Earth's oceans: ~4 x 10^27 J
For a Planck-scale linear collider at LHC-like collision rates (~10^8/sec):
Beam power requirement: ~2 x 10^17 W
With realistic wall-plug efficiency of ~1%: ~2 x 10^19 W
Annual energy consumption: ~6 x 10^26 J
At 1% efficiency, one year of operation would:
Vaporize about 15% of Earth's oceans
Or vaporize the Mediterranean Sea roughly 50 times
Or boil Lake Superior every 5 hours
Or one complete ocean vaporization every 6-7 years of operation
It's about 1 million times current global power consumption
Or about 50,000 Suns running continuously
Or 170 billion Large Hadron Colliders operating simultaneously
Or about 50,000 Suns running continuously
I seriously read that and first thought it was a dig at SPARC chips running hot ...