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    1 year ago

    A dollar bill weighs about a gram. So 44 billion dollars is 44 million kg of paper. This would release about 16 MJ/kg upon combustion, so a total of 700 TJ of energy. This is about the same as an 150 kiloton nuclear bomb.

    So Elon Musk is destroying Xitter with the equivalent energy of a strategic nuclear warhead. This is some real creative destruction.