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How many hot dogs (rather than dicks/weiners) does it take to power the ISS for a day?
ISS Power:
ISS runs on 90kW. This is 90,000 joules per second.
90 K * (24 hours * 60 minutes * 60 seconds) = 7,776,000,000 joules required in one day.
Energy in one hot dog:
The average hot dog has 110 calories.
1 calorie = 4.184 joules.
4.184 x 110 = 460.24 joules per hot dog.
Therefore, the number of hot dogs required to run the ISS each day:
7,776,000,000 joules per day / 460.24 joules per hot dog = 1.689 x10^7 hot dogs per day.
So, just under 17 million hot dogs are required to power the ISS each day.