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geoffpado
on May 6, 2022
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How many radioactive bananas would you need to pow...
“Even if you captured that decay energy with perfect efficiency, powering a house would require about 300 quadrillion bananas, which would form a heap large enough to bury most of the skyscrapers in the NYC metro area”
300 quadrillion
jart
on May 6, 2022
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That still won't stop united fruit from positioning itself as a green energy solution.
macksd
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Which brings us to one of the best XKCD punchlines of all time:
https://what-if.xkcd.com/3/
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