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To: goldbux

I read somewhere that burning 2000 tons of coal converts 1g of mass to energy. Yer gonna need a lot of solar panels.


31 posted on 09/07/2020 9:38:01 AM PDT by beef (Use a VPN, use Tor, and get a shortwave radio. Oh, and ACAB- All Commies Are Bastards)
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To: beef
The plutonium bomb that destroyed Nagasaki released ~ 21 kilotons of energy.

E = MC2

Solving for M, the amount of plutonium mass converted into energy was about the size of 1/3rd of a penny.

60 posted on 09/07/2020 2:06:17 PM PDT by goldbux (No sufficiently rich interpreted language can represent its own semantics. -- Alfred Tarski, 1936)
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