Chaotic42's fact of the day

[Chaotic42]

3.338 grams of matter contains 83,333,333.3 KW/h of energy. It would take a modern coal plant 44,996.4003 tons (40,820,047.7 kg) of coal to make that much energy.

The entire state of arizona only produces 62,720,000,000 KW/h of energy per year. If we could achieve matter->energy transformation, that production could be accomplished by 83.4050691 fluid ounces (2.46662 liters) of regular tap water.

[OUTLAWS 9.99repeating^32]

We have it already. It's called anti-matter. Unfortunately it's both expensive as hell and extremely unstable to be used in power plants right now.

Cool fact bud.

[EXEcution]

I like science alot, but i did not know that matter actualy contained usable energy.
So its like potential energy from matter contains usable energy?
Also where is this energy coming from?
Atoms?

[Chaotic42]

An amount of mass is equal to certain quantity of energy. This is called Mass-Engergy Equivalence. This is where E=mc^2 comes from. Energy (in Joules)= Mass (in kilograms) * c (the speed of light in m/s)^2.

I made a mistake somehow (I was pretty tired last night). That 4 grams should be about 3.338 grams.

So .003338 kilograms * c * c=3.59502071e14 Joules=83,333,333.3 KW/h

4 grams would actually be 99.8 MkW/h. I must have hit the wrong button or something.

[Nitro]

damn scientist

[Chaotic42]

Originally posted by nitrostatic@Jun 18 2004, 02:06 PM
damn scientist
Nah, I'm not a scientist. I'm a Geospatial Analyst. I'm going to go to school for physics and math, but that starts this fall.

I'm just interested in this kind of stuff.

[ME BIGGD01]

this stuff is out of my league. i do know how to make smores though :thumbs:

[EXEcution]

Originally posted by ME BIGGD01@Jun 18 2004, 03:28 PM
this stuff is out of my league. i do know how to make smores though :thumbs:
and smores will get you far in life :wootrock:

[Speedsweeper]

Chaotic 42, very intelligant.

:thumbs:

[EXEcution]

Originally posted by Chris@Jun 18 2004, 03:50 PM
Chaotic 42, very intelligant.

:thumbs:
funny how such great theories can be constructed when one is bored :unsure: