I don't know if any of you have seen a comparison of energies
with what we are familiar with on earth. I find such a scale
interesting and useful.
Amara
from:
http://ippex.pppl.gov/ippex/module_2/Vast_Scale_of_Energy.HTML
"The Vast Scale of Energy"
CALORIES
Kinetic Energy per molecule
per degrees C 0.000000000000000000000003
Kinetic Energy of a slow
neutron 0.000000000000000000382
Fly push up 0.0000000238
Boil away 1 gram of water 539
1 gram of water at earth's
escape velocity 15000
Food energy in 1 twinkie 300000
Food energy burned by a
person in a day 2390000
Average energy use per day by
US citizen 206000000
Energy in 1 barrel of crude
oil 3410000000
Fusion energy released by 1
gram of fuel 81200000000
Energy uses by world's
population in a day 206000000000000000
Energy of strong earthquake 23900000000000000000
Solar energy hitting earth in
a year 1300000000000000000000000
Total energy put out by the
sun in a year 71700000000000000000000000000000
KE of translational of the
Earth in its orbit 6140000000000000000000000000000000
Total energy put out by our
galaxy in a year 10000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
(These values are not meant to be accurate to more than 3
significant digits. The order of magnitude is more to the point.)
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