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Quote from: NostradamusTheSeer on 2016-10-02 05:47:18Theoretically if you broke wind nonstop for seven years it would be the energy equivalent of a nuclear bomb.... a staggeringly small nuclear bomb. Back of the envelope: If you spent 7 years using a sledgehammer to manually demolish buildings, you'd be hard pressed to beat Little Boy. I doubt you can get more energy from farting than from dedicated manual labor. And I think the margins on both of those intuitive estimates are super insanely huge.I'm guessing this came from the "a fart burns 67 calories" thing, which kind of holds up numerically:Let's assume that calorie here means the "large calorie", "Cal" or "kcal". Let's also assume you fart once per second and do so continuously without breaking for sleep.Code: [Select]67kcal ~= 280 kJ.280 * 60 * 60 * 24 * 365 * 7 = 61810560000 = 6.2*10^10 kJ = 6.2*10^13 JLittle Boy, a tiny nuke by modern standards (by a factor of about a hundred) released ~ 6.3*10^13 J.But, alas, it is 100% bunkum that a fart consumes 67 calories:http://www.snopes.com/fart-burns-67-calories/If farting really consumed 67 Cal / sec, a man eating his recommended daily calorie intake could expend all his energy in a single 40 second wall-shaker (2500/67~=40). And while a fart of such proportions would surely leave you weak at the knees, it seems unlikely that one a day would doom you to die of starvation.QED.
Theoretically if you broke wind nonstop for seven years it would be the energy equivalent of a nuclear bomb.
67kcal ~= 280 kJ.280 * 60 * 60 * 24 * 365 * 7 = 61810560000 = 6.2*10^10 kJ = 6.2*10^13 J