Bullshitty thread about chemical energy

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Wayne_Cowdrey		Bullshitty thread about chemical energy	18-12-2018 @ 09:19
Still got a little bit of strength Member 400, 22057 posts	I find it amazing that within a plate of food there is enough energy to move a human body around for hours. The same applies to fuel for vehicles. Within some liquid is enough energy to move a heavy vehicle hundreds of miles. Anyone else find this amazing? Am I talking s**te? Am I ruining Sugden?

slimsim		...	18-12-2018 @ 09:54
My asshole is not watertight. Member 2926, 6050 posts SQ 217.5, BP 107.5, DL 225 550.0 kgs @ 86kgs UnEq	Wayne_Cowdrey said:I find it amazing that within a plate of food there is enough energy to move a human body around for hours. The same applies to fuel for vehicles. Within some liquid is enough energy to move a heavy vehicle hundreds of miles. Anyone else find this amazing? Am I talking s**te? Am I ruining Sugden? There are loads of things which are amazing if you just stop to think about them, like how the hell does a Boeing 747 stay in the air (yes, I know it's aerodynamics and all that jazz) when it weighs hundreds of tonnes. And it uses that same liquid!

billynomates		...	18-12-2018 @ 11:08
Member 4923, 1795 posts	Nuclear energy is even more mind boggling. There’s supposedly enough energy in a glass of water to power London for a year. Or something like that

Wayne_Cowdrey		...	18-12-2018 @ 11:19
Still got a little bit of strength Member 400, 22057 posts	Wow!

The_Lone_Wolf		...	18-12-2018 @ 12:01
I eat a lot of meat Member 5124, 2997 posts SQ 245, BP 130, DL 275 650.0 kgs @ 105kgs UnEq	billynomates said:Nuclear energy is even more mind boggling. There’s supposedly enough energy in a glass of water to power London for a year. Or something like that But can I drink it?


slimsim		...	18-12-2018 @ 12:36
My asshole is not watertight. Member 2926, 6050 posts SQ 217.5, BP 107.5, DL 225 550.0 kgs @ 86kgs UnEq	The_Lone_Wolf said: But can I drink it? Not if it's out of the Thames!

JackRevans		...	18-12-2018 @ 15:19
'There was also a sausage in my mouth.' Member 2477, 16481 posts SQ 190, BP 130, DL 235 555.0 kgs @ 83kgs UnEq	Yeah I think it's weird that energy = mass

IainKendrick		...	18-12-2018 @ 17:09
some nice relaxing jazz. Member 77, 12599 posts SQ 265, BP 165, DL 280 710.0 kgs @ 93kgs UnEq	JackRevans said:Yeah I think it's weird that energy = mass Gets weirder the more you look into it tbh

Boar		...	18-12-2018 @ 17:11
Nothing left in the tank. Member 5, 25564 posts Administrator	dark energy

matthewvc		...	18-12-2018 @ 17:33
‘downsizing’ Member 5704, 3232 posts SQ 280, BP 210, DL 320 810.0 kgs @ 96.3kgs UnEq	Wayne_Cowdrey said:I find it amazing that within a plate of food there is enough energy to move a human body around for hours. The same applies to fuel for vehicles. Within some liquid is enough energy to move a heavy vehicle hundreds of miles. Anyone else find this amazing? Am I talking s**te? Am I ruining Sugden? yes there's a lot of energy bound up as potential energy in chemical bonds (ionic, covalent, van der waals etc) that is released in an exothermic reaction. the actual energy stored as mass is much bigger. for instance when two light elements undergo fusion, like say 2 hydrogen protons in a star like the sun, or a Lithium Deuteride + neutron reaction inside a thermonuclear weapon's fusion stage, a tiny of amount of mass is 'lost' as energy. I'm talking maybe 0.5-1%.. but the energy is enormous, as shown by Einstein's well known mass-energy equivalence equation e=mc^2. The 'c^2' part is of the order of 10^16 so 1kg of mass is equivalent to 10^16 joules of energy. this is around the same energy released from 10,000,000 Tons (10 Megatons) of TNT exploding... A hypothetical anitmatter-matter annihilation of 1kg would release that much energy, although about 2/3 of that energy would be in the form of Neutrinos that don't interact especially with normal matter...

Wayne_Cowdrey		...	18-12-2018 @ 20:12
Still got a little bit of strength Member 400, 22057 posts	Post Edited: 05.08.2019 @ 00:17 AM by Wayne_Cowdrey .

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