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A chocolate tablet typically stores 4000kJ of energy. Yes that's 15 hand grenades, what are we waiting for: ban chocolate tablets now!

And don't get me started on flour, not only it stores a ton of energy (50 grenades per kg) but it's also highly explosive! [1]

[1]: (only with the right air to flour ratio of course, but accident happen every once in a while: https://www.grupa-wolff.com/a-tragic-flour-explosion/)



The chocolate bar doesn't start a violent fire if pierced. If it would we could power our laptops with chocolate :)

The flour conditions of exploding are far more difficult to achieve than a LiIon battery conditions - orders of magnitude difference.


> The chocolate bar doesn't start a violent fire if pierced. If it would we could power our laptops with chocolate :)

Neither does a NiMH battery. There's no link between vulnerability to external damage and ability to power a laptop.

In fact, there's no fundamental reason why we couldn't run our laptop on chocolate[1], just that it's very far away from current technology.

[1]: http://large.stanford.edu/courses/2014/ph240/ho2/


I read Lion battery (lion as in the chocolate bar) and couldn't help but find it hilarious


It’s just that modern laptops run on Li-ion batteries.


True, but not that hard. I had some “dangerous experiments for kids” book back in the day and by far the most fun thing in it was aerosolizing flour with a straw to get the right mixture near your Bunsen burner for your own glorious short lived fireball.


In a world, somewhere, Flowers and Lions power laptops.




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