this post was submitted on 09 Apr 2025
1269 points (98.7% liked)

Science Memes

14191 readers
1696 users here now

Welcome to c/science_memes @ Mander.xyz!

A place for majestic STEMLORD peacocking, as well as memes about the realities of working in a lab.



Rules

  1. Don't throw mud. Behave like an intellectual and remember the human.
  2. Keep it rooted (on topic).
  3. No spam.
  4. Infographics welcome, get schooled.

This is a science community. We use the Dawkins definition of meme.



Research Committee

Other Mander Communities

Science and Research

Biology and Life Sciences

Physical Sciences

Humanities and Social Sciences

Practical and Applied Sciences

Memes

Miscellaneous

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
 
(page 2) 50 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] AntiOutsideAktion@hexbear.net 6 points 6 days ago (1 children)

would burning fat be carbon neutral?

In the same way biofuels are: Technically yes, but still not that great of an idea outside special applications. (One I could imagine would be someone wanting to live completely off grid using filtered frying oil in an old-but-ridiculously-sturdy diesel generator)

[–] woodenghost@hexbear.net 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Wonder what that would look like the even more extreme case of matter-anti-matter?

By the way, energy density is exactly what you look for in bombs. It says nothing about energy prices per joule. It's also great for nuclear submarines or nuclear powered aircraft carriers. So war, basically. Light from the sun has a pretty low energy density, yet powers live on earth.

[–] ryannathans@aussie.zone 5 points 6 days ago (1 children)

The energy density of light from the sun is pretty insane. You can power a lot with 1kg of light

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 1 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Yep, radiation pressure. Which is a limiting factor for star size too: too big and the radiation pressure gets stronger than the gravity, blows them appart.

[–] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago

log to the base 76000000

load more comments
view more: ‹ prev next ›