So this made me curious; how big is Trump Tower, and how would a stocking of coal the size of the tower compare to US coal output per annum?
Trump tower is 200 m tall, and in pictures looks to be about 10x taller than it is wide, so I can estimate it's about 25m on a side at the base.
This is supported by the fact that the penthouse occupying the top 3 floors is (claimed to be) 33,000 sq ft, implying a footprint of about sqrt(11,000 sq ft)=32 m on a side, though take Trump's claims about size with a grain of salt.
Let's call it 25x25x200 m3 . If someone wants to try counting pixels and measuring it on Google maps, go for it.
And the tower is scalloped out on one side, so let's scale by 0.75. That's a volume of about 100,000 m3
Coal is only slightly less dense than water, so a stocking the size of TTower could hold about 100,000 tonnes.
How does this compare? In 2016 US coal production was 728.4 million short tons, about 660 million tonnes.
So we've increased annual coal production by 0.01% by conscripting Santa and his elves to mine coal.
VeryLittle on November 29th, 2017 at 17:18 UTC »
So this made me curious; how big is Trump Tower, and how would a stocking of coal the size of the tower compare to US coal output per annum?
Trump tower is 200 m tall, and in pictures looks to be about 10x taller than it is wide, so I can estimate it's about 25m on a side at the base.
This is supported by the fact that the penthouse occupying the top 3 floors is (claimed to be) 33,000 sq ft, implying a footprint of about sqrt(11,000 sq ft)=32 m on a side, though take Trump's claims about size with a grain of salt.
Let's call it 25x25x200 m3 . If someone wants to try counting pixels and measuring it on Google maps, go for it.
And the tower is scalloped out on one side, so let's scale by 0.75. That's a volume of about 100,000 m3
Coal is only slightly less dense than water, so a stocking the size of TTower could hold about 100,000 tonnes.
How does this compare? In 2016 US coal production was 728.4 million short tons, about 660 million tonnes.
So we've increased annual coal production by 0.01% by conscripting Santa and his elves to mine coal.
Economic impact? Fuck all.
bullshitninja on November 29th, 2017 at 18:48 UTC »
How's this go over on stage?
Lazyleader on November 29th, 2017 at 19:16 UTC »
I didn't get this joke. What's the punchline?