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Gladaed@feddit.org 2 days agoCoal still has carbon in it. Carbon does have a lot of excess energy per nucleus. Just gotta turn it into iron.
Comment on logs are for quitters
Gladaed@feddit.org 2 days agoCoal still has carbon in it. Carbon does have a lot of excess energy per nucleus. Just gotta turn it into iron.
blind3rdeye@lemm.ee 2 days ago
That’s true, but there is far more energy to gain by fusing hydrogen compared to carbon. I’m not sure how it compares to uranium though. I suspect it might be similar. (I mean, obviously in practice you wouldn’t / couldn’t actually get the energy from fusing carbon - but we can still compare hypothetically. … also, I’m sure we could get a clear answer by looking it up; but this is one of those things where thinking about it is probably more interesting than knowing the answer.)
Gladaed@feddit.org 1 day ago
Carbon and uranium are pretty comparable. Look up binding energy per nucleon.