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[–] quarrk@hexbear.net 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

180 million Fahrenheit converts to almost exactly 100 million Kelvin, so I imagine the journalist just converted from Kelvin to get that number. Anyway, using 2000 F ≈ 1,366.48 K gives about 73,000 bonfires.

Temperature does kinda work like this. The Boltzmann constant k_B has units of Joules per Kelvin (energy / temperature). An energy E can has an equivalent temperature T given by setting E = k_B*T. I think it’s good enough to state that 73,000 bonfires would be collectively 73,000 times hotter than one bonfire.

[–] HowAbt2morrow 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

And how many bonfires is a campfire?

[–] quarrk@hexbear.net 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

About 2 campfires for a bonfire I guess. A normal campfire isn’t going to be 2,000 F, more like 800 F but let’s call it 1,000 F. I thought bonfire was more accurate above because the fire would have to be roaring to reach that temp.