cal≠kcal
1 gallon gasoline contains 31 million small calories, while the human caloric requirements are given in large calories. 1000 small calories = 1 large calorie. So the calculations are off by a factor of 1000. The confusion stems from the fact that both are commonly referred to as “calories”, for some stupid reason.
So in reality you would have to drink another gallon in just 2-3 weeks.
Fats and oils have about the same energy density as gasoline.
Assuming you could process it without ill effects.
If you thought having Nestle was bad, Can you imagine if BP was involved in food?
The lumber industry is involved in food.
I’ll just let you digest the horror of that. But uh also. Don’t Google petroleum products in food. You’ll be happier.
What’s wrong with forest products being used in food? I see nothing wrong with that. 🤣
Well they claim it’s sterilized but these are also corporations that will kill people for profits without a second thought.
What makes you think that oil is not involved in food?
Fair point, but I meant mostly in the context of wholesale products derived mainly from Petroleum.
Vaseline. ;)
Sir, please put down the spatula and step away from the kitchen slowly, and no one has to get hurt.
Up to ten fossil energy units as input for one food energy units as output.
Everything you said was correct, except the last sentence. Still pretty sure drinking a gallon of gasoline would be enough to last you your entire life.
That life would just be less than 2-3 weeks.
Fun fact: Most people can drink about a liter of gasoline and not die (short term), about 8500 kcal.
“large calories”?!? The name is kilocalories
Are you trying to make Americans use the metric system? They have started wars for less, dude!
People here talk so much shit about reddit, but post shit from reddit, copy reddit, and talk like redditors.
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Gasoline has about 31,000 calories not 31 million calories
So just 31kcal in one gallon? That doesn’t seem a whole lot.
SO LET’S GET A PARTY GOIN’
WHEN IT’S TIME TO PARTY WE’LL ALL PARTY HARD!
Obviously a good joke, and of course obligatory cal/kcal discrepancy here. This just seems like a good place to put this info:
Calories on labels are for calories absorbed, not for calories in the food (same with the 4/9/4 rule). So it’d be much less for gasoline, if it were possible to label with nutritional info.
As far as I know calories are measured with a Bomb calorimeter meaning you are wrong.
I was pretty sure of this too, and someone who used to work for the FDA told me it was calculated not measured 99% of the time
Here’s a good video with some supporting evidence. I’ve looked it up for a couple foods; calculated calories on em
So apparently they’re starting to create machines with biological parts. I wonder how long until we get artificial stomachs capable of using anything not explodey or caustic for fuel?
It would already be awesome if we could hack or genetically engineer our gut biome to produce all needed vitamins and proteins out of carbohydrates and fats. Theoretically then we could live just off of sugar or oil. Plus some minerals.
Right? And can we get some kind of metering system so we don’t pack on extra fat?
People are afraid of a cybernetic future but I’m sitting here wondering just how healthy we can make the human body.
In order of worst to best case scenario the human body will reject, wear down, or scar around any and all implanted foreign materials or objects. Implants of every type have a shelf life, some long enough to never worry about removal. The best method to secure implants are to bones, but the only nearby bones for the stomach are the hips and spine, with organ cavity linings being problematically in the way for most attachments. For the digestive system it would need to be extremely resistant to corrosion and it would also need to be nontoxic as it would inevitably enter the bloodstream. Even teeth fillings are only rated for about a decade at most.
So, to be blunt, no such technology exists on this earth nor any speculation on how it ever might.
I think the commenter mean using artificial stomach for machinery to convert food into energy that the machine can use
No banjo got it right
So not in our lifetime then. Dang. Thank you though.
Sorry did you mean powering a machine with food? We have those, there is a university somewhere that throws copious amounts of expired mayo into an Anaerobic Digestor which produces fuel for a combustion engine.
they already exist, they are called fermentation vats
Okay but can I install one in my body and use it for nutrients?
you already do, well, healthy kids do, anyways .
That explains why I’m a ghost. :( All these centuries, wondering and wandering.
like in ghost love story https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYjIlHWBAVo
