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Letter: Letter

Published 17 April 2004

From Andrew Wells

Dickson has obtained the chemical energy in a pint of beer, but surely what we really need is the physical energy – from good old E = mc2. This works out at 5.1 × 1016 joules. That’s enough energy to put 272,000 African elephants into low Earth orbit.

Guildford, Surrey, UK

Issue no. 2443 published 17 April 2004

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