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Berkeley did the maths for you: http://w.astro.berkeley.edu/~gmarcy/thermal/tpteacher/jokes/...

(notice the word 'jokes' in the URL, but it's pretty well done)




Those numbers seem very peculiar:

> Each ounce of beer contains 16 latent calories, but extracts 1,036 calories (6,216 cal. per 6 oz. portion) in the temperature normalizing process.

I think it's muddling food calories (which are really mislabelled kilocalories) and temperature calories (which aren't). So that 16 should be 16000.

This is why you do this in joules!




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