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I propose replacing calories with watt-hours.- Almost same value (1 kilocalorie… | |
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@anthropy only if we start rating batteries in calories | |
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@cinebox maybe, but I unironically can relate more to an egg or slice of bread … | |
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A Snickers is about 570Wh, which is like eating a very sizable ebike battery… | |
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@[email protected] tried pushing a big mac into my computer once an hou… | |
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@syn Tech Support: how can I help youme: please, my computer, he's dying :&… | |
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to the people posting "but joules!": https://mastodon.derg.nz/@anthro… | |
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@anthropy Joules | |
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@VickForcella https://mastodon.derg.nz/@anthropy/115056959564418716 | |
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@anthropy or, if you want more accuracy, just use joules, as 1 joule = 1 watt-s… | |
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@Stoori https://mastodon.derg.nz/@anthropy/115056959564418716 | |
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@anthropy I prefer the US approach. How many washing machines is that? | |
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@VickForcella idk I prefer the taste of fridges | |
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@anthropy Blasphemy! | |
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@anthropy Hm. Interesting.How many Cheeseburger would I need to eat for 36kWh? … | |
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@_g_baer_ A cheeseburger is about 300 Calories (/kilocalories), so about 340 wa… | |
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@anthropy I approve of this message | |
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@anthropy am cyclist, powered by pizza not cake. | |
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@moz I didn't have enough characters left in the post to write pizza :pensi… | |
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@anthropy instead, they start specifying the power of drills in joules ;_; | |
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@anthropy The fastest people can eat 8 hot dogs per minute (160 kW) - which cou… | |
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@anthropy I'm fully behind joules for everything non-human. I tolerate othe… | |
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@anthropy But aren't kilocalories and kilojoules also labeled on foods? | |
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@anthropy I especially support this cake thing. | |
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@anthropy Very enlightning! I checked: my fridge's daily consumption is app… | |
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@anthropy I could see gun-nerds being ablr to relate slightly better with joule… | |
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@Primo also fair! you could technically use watthours for gun power too, but yo… | |
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@anthropy damn, it does make it sounds super insignificant! And not "this … | |
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@Primo definitely. I also think surface area with guns is a large part in that,… | |
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@anthropy yeah! I think penetration calculations go back to pressure, though no… | |
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@anthropy @cinebox I can't either way | |
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@anthropy Context is important for units. We don't usually use food energy… | |
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@anthropy To add, this reminds me of a discussion I got into with a scientist f… | |
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@anthropy it also makes you appreciate:* how efficient our technology is, relat… | |
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@brunoph it depends on how you look at it; On average, we use less than 100W co… | |
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@anthropy But there's still the question though of calorie-to-electricity c… | |
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@anthropy you know, in cycling we track kJ and more or less say 1 kJ = 1 kcal, … | |
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@anthropy Does @1 have a bio reactor that works like this as well? | |
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mx [@thibaultmol, @anthropy], true! this unit runs mostly on fuel that is conde… | |
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@anthropy Extending the concept for those of us in the proletariat, a pint (sor… | |
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@Doug_Bostrom @anthropy I'm now thinking about hand-cranked rotorcraft.How … | |
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@anthropy Eye-popping: by this measure it needs 22 pints of ale to make our Che… | |
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@anthropy I wholly support this idea :nkoWhoaa: | |
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@carbontwelve @anthropy +1 | |
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@anthropy Or go the other way around, make snickers bars the unit of energy the… | |
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@anthropy No! A slice of pizza is that much less than a snickers!!! Wow. | |
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@GinevraCat @anthropy no, the value for a snickers in the original post is off.… | |
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@anthropy @cinebox makes sense... | |
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@anthropy the electrical analogy is remarkable. | |
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@syn you should've taken the drive out of the big Mac and just pushed that … | |
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@anthropy Joules is a failed unit and everyone knows it | |
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@Doug_Bostrom @anthropy Can you enlighten me on that definition of a pint? I th… | |
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@drchaos @anthropy It were me what dunnit. Error! | |
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@Doug_Bostrom @anthropy I guess 1020 program alert?I was genuinely confused in … | |
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@brunoph @anthropy yes but our bodies also do waaaaay more, it's not really… | |
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@suihkulokki @anthropy km? Isn't the USA's official unit of distance th… | |
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@juliank @anthropy Not unlike MWt (thermal output) and MW (electrical output) w… | |
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@anthropy what the fuck size is your Snickers? | |
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@lispi314 @anthropy For this example it was about 300W, although fixed wing.Rot… | |
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@anthropy E=mc^2 is such a simple formula for Joules, though! Most food calorie… | |
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@anthropy (Sorry, I’ve gotten deep into the Food/Exercise Calories are the la… | |
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@anthropy (Both models ignore macronutrients and digestive processes and so muc… | |
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@grouchox @anthropy I had to look it up; that was the biggest one they've e… | |
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@anthropy Counter proposal, how about the power utilities start using snickers-… | |
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@anthropy "Well look at that, your laundry machine consumed the equivalent… | |
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@IrrationalMethod @anthropy well https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2022-01-27… | |
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@IrrationalMethod @anthropy tangentially, the thing that fascinates me the _mos… | |
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@Primo yea, that's another thing I guess, cars seem so big and bad until yo… | |
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@anthropy this thread reminds me of a twenty-year-old blog post on the risk of … | |
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@IrrationalMethod @anthropy considering there is an economical rule of thumb &q… | |
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@anthropy or we stop talking about energy in What's and get used to joules … | |
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@anthropy A Snickers is 570 Wh when burned in an oven. This is not the "ch… | |
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@anthropy 🤣 | |
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@anthropy that's insane. That's 2 Cheeseburger per Minute!I guess I wil… | |
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@artemist https://mastodon.derg.nz/@anthropy/115056959564418716 | |
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@anthropy @artemist https://polyglot.city/@Stoori/115056982550966133 | |
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@f4grx @anthropy it's crazy how efficient biology is at extracting energy f… | |
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@xek @anthropy it is, isn't it? Also, a pound of middle-age spread is enoug… | |
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@anthropy@Primo How railroad locomotives feel | |
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@jaztrophysicist @IrrationalMethod @anthropy how much was this in footballfield… | |
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@ElGrossKotzo @jaztrophysicist @anthropy American Snickers or British Empire Sn… | |
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@IrrationalMethod @jaztrophysicist @anthropy i meant footballfields not rugby n… | |
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@ElGrossKotzo @IrrationalMethod @anthropy barely the cornerplot | |
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@IrrationalMethod @ElGrossKotzo @anthropy Natural snickers | |
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@scott @IrrationalMethod @anthropy Yeah, I always amused myself with similar th… | |
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@anthropy they should stop measuring batteries in Wh and just use J there too | |
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@Doug_Bostrom @lispi314 @anthropy the trick for rotorcraft is to make the rotor… | |
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@anthropy @syn @radieschen the diskette looked molten | |
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@anthropy i had previously tried personally converting to Joules (8.4MJ being t… | |
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@anthropy most awesome idea ever | |
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@anthropy @venite so many cursed units in one post. A trigger warning would hav… | |
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@xerge @venite there was a thread here somewhere about kwh/day and how recursiv… | |
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@anthropy @xerge @venite - I like this post but I hate measuring energy in unit… | |
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@johncarlosbaez @anthropy @xerge I’ve been feeling a bit fractious. Might be … | |
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@venite @anthropy @xerge - as long as one *knows* one is being pro-Babylonian I… | |
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@johncarlosbaez @venite @xerge yea exactly, as mentioned in https://mastodon.de… | |
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@anthropy @venite @xerge - yes, being a scientist I'm perfectly capable of … |