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If you added one gram of 100M degree material in a 5 sq meter room at 15 degrees C, how hot would the room get?


Well.. assuming the room is about 3 meters high, that's a room volume of 15 cubic meters. Assuming it's filled with air, and air weighs about 1,29 kg per cubic meter, that's 19,35 kg or 19350 grams of air. 15 degrees C is 288 Kelvin, so that's 19350*288 = 5.572.800 gram-kelvins of energy in the room initially. Now we add 100.000.000 gram-kelvins (the one gram of hot stuff) to it, and assuming this energy distributes over the air contents, our air now has a heat energy of 105.572.800 gram-kelvins. Dividing it back the same way (over the 19350 grams of air) gives us 105572800/19350 = 5456 gram-kelvins per gram of air, so a temperature of 5456 kelvins or 5183 degrees C. Still pretty hot.


I think a gram is significantly more material than fusion reactors need to use.




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