The Super Bowl Goes Nuclear

I haven’t felt this considerably vitality given that I 1st went to Altamont. I’m not sure why this yr is diverse. Perhaps because I dwell following to a nuclear energy plant. Or that the United States now generates much more natural fuel from fracking than will be created from the one.25 billion chicken wings eaten today.

Add to that the 69 million lbs of avacados, 20 million lbs of chips, 4½ million pizzas, 4 million pounds of pretzels, 4 million lbs of popcorn and 2½ million lbs of nuts, not to mention yet another 50 million lbs of “other”, and we can be forgiven for being awed by this amount of energy (SBNation, Latin Occasions).

I, myself, will convert my portion of these calories into 120 Watt-hrs of power, thirty of which I will place to actual work, like raising the temperature of beer from 45°F to 98.6° at the strain generated when Richard Sherman knocked the ball away from Crabtree’s hands.

Note: I have not corrected for the dissolved gas in the beer, and this is certainly not stout.

Only Thanksgiving processes much more calories. But the joule of this crown is the 1.2 billion cans of beer that will be consumed in the couple of hrs right after the pre-game show starts.

Judith and I were in a position to muster the electrical power to appreciate the superhuman volume of chemical energy that will be released by passage of this mass of foodstuffs by means of a hundred million alimentary canals, equivalent to 200 million kWhrs of electrical power. Since it price us $ 25 billion to acquire this meals, but only $ 30 million in energy to cook it, the market place is way in favor of the meals industry relative to the energy market.

But we need to all be truly thankful that America generates this kind of low-cost vitality that the complete output of five-thousand wind turbines, eight gasoline plants, four coal plants, 3 hydroelectric dams the size of Grand Coulee, a square mile solar array, and the nuclear power of the Columbia Producing Station can be place exclusively to grill, fry, bake, boil, chill, pour and mix this large quantity of food to the stage where it can fuel the focused consideration of one hundred million Americans on 44 pounding people. Even much more wonderful is that this 300,000,000 kWhrs only costs us about thirty cents a head, a paltry sum in contrast to the expense of a Super Bowl ticket.

So for all of us who are Tim Turner’s 12^th man, I celebrate our ability at this event to increase the universal entropy in this singularly American way. I guess the LOB is set to broaden to one hundred million today.

The Super Bowl Goes Nuclear