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I never got this analysis, doesn't any material have absurd energy if you break down its very molecules and atoms?
http://www.jaygarmon.net/2010/09/according-to-einsteins-famous-equation.html?m=1
Apparently 21.5 billion calories per gram of matter
Not sure what this meme is getting at, then, since it seems to be significantly undercounting it
Meme is referring to nuclear reactors, not complete antimatter annihilation.
Nuclear reactors don't "burn" everything
most of the matter stays (this is what nuclear waste is). So you can only apply E=mc^2 to the difference in mass, not the mass of the fuel.
You know it's funny, technically a calorie is just a measure of how much energy it takes to heat up 1 gram of water 1° C I never really thought about it but it could totally be applied to other things and nuclear reactor plants that literally just heat up water to spin a turbine would be the perfect thing to measure in calories. So would regular electric plants for that matter. It might just be literally calories.
Oh shoot that would be some wild math to figure out how hungry they all are.
Except that 1 gram of water is at 1 bar. Heating up 1 gram of water from 300°C to 301°C takes 1.38 calories.