[myself248]

Probably not surprising at all, but my brother once ran the numbers on how much energy it would take to "fire a pound of bacon into the asteroid belt", and I don't remember the exact number but it was roughly comparable to the capacity of modern EV batteries -- a few tens of kwh.

Of course Stephenson figured out how much battery a useful EV would need, before concocting a throwaway line about it. In 1992.