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by amelius 2827 days ago
What is nasty about the way the human body stores its energy?
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A healthy human diet is 8700 kJ/ day. A gallon of gasoline has 120,000 kJ.

So, we are very energy efficient. But no so awesome in terms of energy storage density.

Have you ever smelled one of those things?