This may not be very practical to do to the whole moon at once though :-)
Well, I shouldn’t speak before checking. Taking numbers from Wikipedia (ETA fixed numbers):
The moon has a mass of 7.36e22 Kg, converting it to energy would yield 6.624e39 J.
The Sun’s total output is about 3.86e26 J / s, so this is the equivalent of 3.17 million years of Sun energy (if you have a Dyson sphere).
A nova releases ~~ 1e34-1e37 J over a few days; only 1⁄100 as much as converting the moon to energy. A core-collapse supernova bursts 1e44-1e46 J of energy in 10 seconds—a lot more. (Range is according to different Google results.)
ETA: the numbers were completely wrong before and I corrected them.
Your numbers seem to be off: (e.g. 4.26e9 J/sec would be truly minsiscule) You probably meant 4.29e29 J/sec, but then 5.74e5 years are wrong. According to wikipedia, the Sun’s energy output is: 1.2e34 J/s which is still at odd with both of your numbers.
Well, I shouldn’t speak before checking. Taking numbers from Wikipedia (ETA fixed numbers):
The moon has a mass of 7.36e22 Kg, converting it to energy would yield 6.624e39 J.
The Sun’s total output is about 3.86e26 J / s, so this is the equivalent of 3.17 million years of Sun energy (if you have a Dyson sphere).
A nova releases ~~ 1e34-1e37 J over a few days; only 1⁄100 as much as converting the moon to energy. A core-collapse supernova bursts 1e44-1e46 J of energy in 10 seconds—a lot more. (Range is according to different Google results.)
ETA: the numbers were completely wrong before and I corrected them.
Your numbers seem to be off: (e.g. 4.26e9 J/sec would be truly minsiscule) You probably meant 4.29e29 J/sec, but then 5.74e5 years are wrong. According to wikipedia, the Sun’s energy output is: 1.2e34 J/s which is still at odd with both of your numbers.