Comment on Oxygen

• Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Fire gets it’s energy from fuel+oxygen. Most life does too. Plants (and other photosynthetic organisms) can also get energy from light but that requires you to sit in the sun doing not much for a long time. There’s also chemosynthesis, where energy is obtained from a chemical reaction, but that’s usually not nearly as powerful as oxidation.

  Put another way, a car with NOS is way faster and more powerful than one without. So too is life that uses oxygen more powerful than life that doesn’t.

  source

  • Paradachshund@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    That’s really interesting. I didn’t realize the burning in slow motion thing was so literal. Thanks for the comment!

    source

    • chatokun@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      It’s so ingrained in our life processes. You know Calories? The capital C version(or Kcal in some countries) is 1000 calories. What do they measure? The potential heat whatever is being measured can generate. Our fuel intake is measured by how well it burns.

      source

      • Paradachshund@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Hell yeah brother cranks motorcycle

        source