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Trying2KnowMyself [they/them, comrade/them]Efficacy of White Genocide as a Fuel Source
tbh I clicked on “comments” thinking “guarantee imma find the best reply from someone from hexbear” lawl
I had a brief moment of regret after posting because I realized I could have collected downvotes if I had switched to an account that would federate with .world
Ahhh I didn’t realize world was defedersted from hexbear! I’m happy db0 doesn’t defederate with many places, as far as I know. I know hexbear and this instance haven’t gotten along in the past but a lotta my values line up with both instances most of the time, and a ton of bangers come from bears.
They were so scared of the bearsite that they needed to “preemptively defederate” “as a last resort”
It would be terrible if their ideological masters let them think for themselves!
The only way to protect yourself from the evil authoritarians is to become one yourself.
edinbruhIs this to measure calories? We did something similar in elementary school, our teacher would light a piece of snack on hanging above an aluminium dish, and we would count for how long it burned. Then we looked at the packaging and the snacks with more calories burned the longest.
If I recall my undergrad thermodynamics class correctly, you can calculate the calories in food by burning, but in an experiment like this too much of the heat would escape to the surroundings to be usefully measured. Usually they use something like a bomb calorimeter to make sure all the heat is captured and measured.
Calorie count of soylant green.
Cracker fire water
TrackinDaKrakenIt’s kinda like The Matrix. Or, maybe I didn’t understand that movie.
Wildmimic
AllNewTypeFaceRelated: a guy in Poland posted online about buying supermarket donuts to use as fuel in a wood-burning stove. The donuts turned out an order of magnitude cheaper than firewood.
CorkyskogPoland is still fairly religious and I’ve heard accounts of the amount some people eat on Fat Thursday on the leadup to Easter. Pretty sure that a specific type of donut is quite popular for it. So yeah, probably related
That suggests you could mix flour and vegetable oil and maybe dry it into bricks which might be cheaper than donuts usual are. I wonder how dirty that burns…
I Cast FistMaybe the frying is the special sauce in making them more flammable? Fry donuts with a donut-fueled stove to get more donuts for fuel.
Could be. A little char can make things easier to light. But I’ve never tried lighting a greasy dough block, so I don’t know whether it needs help or not.
Dude who downvoted you: How dare you be relevant, insightful, and correct.
DIY calorimeter?
You’ll never get published with that writing flair.
Yeah you need a more eye-catching title, like
“I accidentally made a calorimeter?? Gone wrong - GONE SEXUAL”
Now that’s a paper any journal would be itching to publish
“I accidentally made a calorimeter?? Gone wrong - GONE SEXUAL”
Now that’s a paper any journal would be itching to publish
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Citations +1
Are nutritional/digested calories actual equal to their combustion energy?
It’s within a percent.
The main substance that burns but doesn’t necessarily get metabolized is dietary fiber, which is a category of some different polysaccharides that burn but don’t get (fully) digested.
So high fiber foods would tend to give incorrect results in bomb calorimetry.
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Flyberius [comrade/them]I always wondered with this experiment why burning the food gives an accurate measure of calories? Obviously our digestion doesn’t literally burn the food, so how are the two processes analogous?
You do oxidize food in your gut. Maybe not as completely as burning it. But in a proper bomb calometer, it is sealed if that helps it make more sense.
Thanks for that. I guess in my head I feel there must be so much more to it. I need to read into it all
External bomb calometer
Me getting family members cremated
“Finding the correct amount of crackers to make a boiling tube crack, by Liane Cartman et. al.”
Baptism by fire
Saul Goodman can’t help us, only his high-school aged children can! Better call the Saul teens!