• PotatoesFall@discuss.tchncs.de
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    22 hours ago

    When we measure calories in food we are speaking of bioavailable chemical energy. The energy listed for Uranium here is not chemical, it’s the nuclear potential energy released during nuclear fission which is completely different.

    That was probably obvious but ackshyually if we include the nuclear potential energy that could be released from fusion, I would wager the water in that food has enough hydrogen to give the same amount of energy, since hydrogen carries far more nuclear potential energy.

    • Mist101@lemmy.world
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      18 hours ago

      One more acktchuallay to add; the big C calories in food is 1000 little c calories, so yellow cake only has 20,000,000, take that, uh, whoever.

    • exasperation@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      Some fungi found to be thriving in Chernobyl, and seemingly growing towards radiation sources, are hypothesized to be able to capture and use the radiation energy to support biological processes. If it turns out that some fungi can synthesize compounds that convert ionizing radiation into chemical bonds that can be metabolized by biological organisms, one could theoretically imagine some kind of symbiotic relationship between organisms that comes out of that.

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      23 hours ago

      Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day.

      Give a man uranium and you feed him for life…which also happens to be a day.

  • ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de
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    20 hours ago

    Imagine if we could just eat and sustain ourselves with uranium.

    One single GRAM has enough calories for a human to live for about 28,000 years.

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          To ease calculations, energy is expressed in 1000-calorie units known as kilocalories. That is, 1 Calorie is equivalent to 1 kilocalorie; the capital C in Calories denotes kcal on food labels, calories and kilocalories are used interchangeably to mean the same thing.