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Submitted ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨fossilesque@mander.xyz⁩ to ⁨science_memes@mander.xyz⁩

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  • AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Related: a guy in Poland posted online about buying supermarket donuts to use as fuel in a wood-burning stove. The donuts turned out an order of magnitude cheaper than firewood.

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    • a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      Dude who downvoted you: How dare you be relevant, insightful, and correct.

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    • blackbrook@mander.xyz ⁨42⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      That suggests you could mix flour and vegetable oil and maybe dry it into bricks which might be cheaper than donuts usual are. I wonder how dirty that burns…

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      • ICastFist@programming.dev ⁨4⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

        Maybe the frying is the special sauce in making them more flammable? Fry donuts with a donut-fueled stove to get more donuts for fuel.

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    • Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I wish donuts were that cheap near me. The dollars to donuts phrase has been backward for like at least 10 years in my area.

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  • edinbruh@feddit.it ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Is this to measure calories? We did something similar in elementary school, our teacher would light a piece of snack on hanging above an aluminium dish, and we would count for how long it burned. Then we looked at the packaging and the snacks with more calories burned the longest.

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    • dalekcaan@feddit.nl ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      If I recall my undergrad thermodynamics class correctly, you can calculate the calories in food by burning, but in an experiment like this too much of the heat would escape to the surroundings to be usefully measured. Usually they use something like a bomb calorimeter to make sure all the heat is captured and measured.

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  • sudoMakeUser@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    Me getting family members cremated

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  • Trying2KnowMyself@hexbear.net ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Efficacy of White Genocide as a Fuel Source

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    • Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      tbh I clicked on “comments” thinking “guarantee imma find the best reply from someone from hexbear” lawl

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      • Trying2KnowMyself@hexbear.net ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        catgirl-salute I had a brief moment of regret after posting because I realized I could have collected downvotes if I had switched to an account that would federate with .world

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  • YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    External bomb calometer

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  • MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    DIY calorimeter?

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    • Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      You’ll never get published with that writing flair.

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      • ignotum@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Yeah you need a more eye-catching title, like
        “I accidentally made a calorimeter?? Gone wrong - GONE SEXUAL”
        Now that’s a paper any journal would be itching to publish

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  • yesman@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Image

    Safe, clean, and renewable. It’s the energy source of the future.

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  • Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Novel implementations of field expedient laboratory heat sources - a systematic scientific litterature meta-analysis.

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  • Flyberius@hexbear.net ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I always wondered with this experiment why burning the food gives an accurate measure of calories? Obviously our digestion doesn’t literally burn the food, so how are the two processes analogous?

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    • YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      You do oxidize food in your gut. Maybe not as completely as burning it. But in a proper bomb calometer, it is sealed if that helps it make more sense.

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      • Flyberius@hexbear.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Thanks for that. I guess in my head I feel there must be so much more to it. I need to read into it all

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  • Skuldug@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Eat the Ritz™

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  • WhyIHateTheInternet@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Cracker fire water

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  • AbidingOhmsLaw@lemmy.ml ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Calorie count of soylant green.

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  • DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    It’s kinda like The Matrix. Or, maybe I didn’t understand that movie.

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  • humanspiral@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Are nutritional/digested calories actual equal to their combustion energy?

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    • YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      It’s within a percent.

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  • Wildmimic@anarchist.nexus ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Categorizing how hard a cracker got burned by measuring its caloric output with water as intermediary.

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