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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&#3…
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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 …
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