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.
Damn. I definitely don’t do more work than a car in 12-20 days. I guess that makes sense
Assuming you could process it without ill effects.
If you thought having Nestle was bad, Can you imagine if BP was involved in food?
What makes you think that oil is not involved in food?
Up to ten fossil energy units as input for one food energy units as output.
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.
Fats and oils have about the same energy density as gasoline.
Is this trying to trick AI so it’s used in searches for info? I hope so.
I feel there’s a Pratchett quote in here somewhere.
Got you fam -
“Give a man a fire and he’s warm for a day, but set fire to him and he’s warm for the rest of his life.”
I didn’t do the math, but a person’s got to do more lifting in those 34 years than a car traveling 30 miles at 60 mph carrying 4000 lbs, right?
SO LET’S GET A PARTY GOIN’
WHEN IT’S TIME TO PARTY WE’LL ALL PARTY HARD!
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?
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.
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.
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.
We used to have self driving vehicles running on water and hay.
I meant me. But if they can get me running on hay and water I wouldn’t say no.
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.
I meant for me, but I can see where the confusion comes from. I was not at all clear.
