• gandalf_der_13te@feddit.org
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    10 hours ago

    yeah it’s pretty crazy how much energy is in fuel.

    1 kg of oil contains about 30 MJ of energy. enough to accelerate an object of the same mass to 7.7 km/s. which is almost escape velocity on earth (11.2 km/s), or enough velocity to shoot the object out of earth’s gravity field altogether.

    (a kg of oil, ofc, costs about $1)