Re: Mass/Energy Conservation

[Chuck Britton <britton@NCSSM.EDU>]

       I'll have my students estimate the mass of food that they
convert in one year by approximating 150 watt conversion rate. Sounds
like an interesting problem. AT LEAST as pertinent as the Hiroshima
and Nagasaki conversions?


At 2:26 PM -0800 12/10/00, Bernard G. Cleyet & Nancy Ann Seese,  you
wrote about Re: Mass/Energy Conservation:


> Huh?
>
> Where else would it go -- since were not sophisticated enuff to convert
> (significantly!) mass to energy.
>
> David Abineri wrote:
>
>  > I presume that, if you eat a pound of food, you will gain a pound of
>  > weight at that time.
>  >
>  > Now, over many days, one eats many pounds and produces many pounds of
>  > waste. How can one describe the mass and energy balance here. If the
>  > waste is less mass than the food, do you necessarily put on weight?  If
>  > not what happens?
>  >
>  > Thanks for any guidance,       Dave Abineri
>  >
>  > --
>  >  David Abineri   dabineri@choice.net

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