• lolcatnip@reddthat.com
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    7 months ago

    The numbers don’t add up. If you can get 21 billion US food calories from total annihilation (which I checked is right), you’d get nowhere near 18 billion food calories from a fusion reaction. Maybe it works if you assume “calories” for the fission reaction means metric calories, since US food calories are metric kilocalories.

    I hate the way the word “calorie” ended up with two wildly different definitions.