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TURKEY POWER (mander.xyz)
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[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

If people didn't all turn their oven on at the same time but took more of a staggered approach this would supply a lot more people.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

No, it's already wrong even for realistic staggered dinners.

I think they are using an arbitrary GW-day of energy instead of power, so it can't even come close to making as much turkey as claimed.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

They're over by a factor of 6 which would add up to 21 hours, not 24. I don't know what they've done to get 2.5 million, it should be 417 thousand with those numbers.

Edit: Oh dear. They said each oven could completely cook 6 turkeys in a day so they rounded to that number. At least it no longer reads GW/day.
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

Time zones probably help with that!