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Since we're trying to use human-understandable units for measuring energy inputs, It's also the same amount of energy that is necessary to boil 600 pots of soup.

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Not much use unless you specify the size of the pot ;)

By my calculation, 1MWh is enough to boil 600 17-liter pots, which isn't very human-relatable.

We're talking about the full energy budget of common household objects, like laptops, so you need to take into account the inefficiency of your gas stove, as well as the full energy cost of extracting and transporting the natural gas to your apartment.

Well then, let's see your working. Gas is really quite efficient in all ways.

That's almost as much soup as I eat in a year.

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