Sources: Elhacham et al. (2020), Hackney et al. (2021), UNEP (2022)

  • WFH
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    404 months ago

    Humanity consumes 18 kilograms of sand per person per day

    Since I started following a low-sand diet I now consume at most a few spoonfuls per day (mostly during breakfast). Every little thing counts.

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      4 months ago

      Since the graphic claims microchips are made out of “sand”, I will call silica “sand”. To get a spoon full of “sand”, some random internet sources suggests that it would weigh about 33g, and apparently oats is quite dense in “sand”, so youd need about 176 kg of oats, or about 27,000 spoonfulls of oats to satisfy your diet of “sand”. Impressive!

      (Or maybe you just eat it raw as a anti-caking agent?)

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          104 months ago

          I was using a metric tablespoon for my calculations (15ml)

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                  14 months ago

                  Container shape is important for small amounts and error from particle size scales linearly with the amount.

                  If we’re talking cooking flours, particle size tends to be somewhat uniform, and container shape don’t make much of a difference, humidity being the heavy hitter when it comes to density variation.