[XCSSA] ROEI: Your Tummy and a SUV in the Food Pantry, the 10x Ratio

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On Tuesday 19 June 2007 18:49, xcssa-admin@xcssa.org wrote:
[...]
> More precisely, 1 food Calorie = 1,000 calories...
> and since 1 calorie ~ 4.2 Joules (or 4.2 Coulomb Volts)
> and 1 J = 2.7778 ×10−7 kilowatt-hour, you can now convert a bag of
cheetos
> to KWh (like you read on your home meter) like this...
[...]
> (10oz/bag-o-cheetos) * (160C/1oz) * (1000c/1C) * (4.2Joules/1c) *
> (2.7778x10-7 KWh/1Joules) = 1.867 KWh / bag-o-cheetos
>
> NOTE: 160C/oz from: http://www.calorie-count.com/calories/item/83640.html
>
> Wow.. That's like running a 100W light bulb for almost 19 hours.
> Or a retail energy cost of around $0.12 of San Antonio power.

BTW.. Yes I realize that this has nothing to do with the amount of energy
or oil to product the cheetos.  I'm just talking about how much energy is
contained in the food stuff.. and having a bit of dimensional analysis fun
at the same time... ;)

Tweeks