Over its lifetime, the average microwave requires more energy to display a digital clock than to heat food.
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A coal power station puts 100 times more radiation into the air than a nuclear power plant producing the same amount of energy.
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The human brain uses approximately as much energy as a 10 watt light bulb.
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If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.
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Leonardo Da Vinci predicted the mass use of solar energy as long ago as 1447.
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If you fart consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb.
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In Arizona, a solar wind energy tower has been proposed that would generate as much energy as the Hoover Dam.
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There is enough energy in one bolt of lightning to power a home for two weeks!
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