How Many Lemons to Melt the Eiffel Tower?

[@Reverend_Salem]

Now the question is how many potato batteries do you need to generate enough heat to melt the Eiffel Tower.

[@thomasrussell4674]

This is a really good one.

[@Hylog]

at least 2

[@Playerofakind]

​@@bigbraintwo chat gpt ☠️

[@denisekyles4299]

And 12.17 trillion portal guns

[@jonatanpl3899]

@@Playerofakind yeah, so ?

[@cee_ves]

Gives math textbook question vibes “Pete has 10 quadrillion lemons. If Pete wanted to melt the Eiffel Tower, how many Eiffel towers could he melt?”

[@JACKHARRINGTON]

"Assume unlimited Eiffel Towers", if we're on an exam

[@the1truejackal916]

completely disregard how 10 quadrillion lemons came to be

[@kellymountain]

​@@the1truejackal916 do not question the almighty Pete

[@cee_ves]

@@the1truejackal916 that’s the next question. In one year, 22 million metric tons of lemons are produced worldwide. Lemons weigh an average of 100g. How long would it take to grow the correct number of lemons to melt your calculated number of Eiffel towers? Give your answer in years

[@the1truejackal916]

@@cee_veshere ya go (if im wrong sorry) 22 million metric tons of lemons are produced a year, with 100g per lemon, and one metric ton is 1000000 grams. This results in about 220,000,000,000 (220 billion). an estimated 8,765,333,333,333,333 lemons (8.77 quadrillion lemons), with 220,000,000,000 lemons produced per year. This would take approximately 39,842.42 years. For context, Homo Neanderthalensis went extinct approximately 40,000 years ago.

[@oloyolopl]

Finally youtube recommends me some actually usefull content. I've already booked my flight to Paris

[@Jplays-Games]

Thank you for your service solider

[@cosmiccake791]

You mean to p*ris🤢🤮? use the word properly soldier.

[@homegrowngamer3411]

Aww heck yeah! Let's get a new world event going on, ok is anyone in this comment section able to supply the lemons?

[@A59ri]

@@homegrowngamer3411i have a lemon tree, i i’ll do it

[@Oxaluim]

Please tell me you got your lemons

[@ThatGeezer]

Missed opportunity. Given the timescale involved, it would be simpler to selectively breed lemons for size. With sufficient effort, it should be possible to create a single lemon large enough to do the job on its own. The Eiffel Tower is lemon-squeezer-shaped already, making the process even easier.

[@ReadThisOnly]

yeah, but that wouldn't make a good amusement park.

[@Wolfgal16]

Also you can select for higher concentration of citric acid. The labs where this happens can be part of the theme park like Tomorrow Land

[@Ryann9]

⁠@@ReadThisOnlyit would make a great finale for the amusement park though

[@knighthunter1791]

​@@Ryann9It will be broadcasted to billions worldwide, from the sprawling cities of the United States, to the sandy space of emptiness in Mongolia, and beyond.

[@whothefrickareyou8106]

Next up. Turning the pyramids into sand with sandpaper.

[@edwinmaster7326]

melt the limestone with limes

[@PistaZOV]

damn you're a prophet

[@Prefusify]

wha

[@Eon-vids]

He did it🎉

[@Itz_just_VICTOR]

You just did not predict this lmfao

[@musclechicken9036]

Fun fact: using 100% of the energy and turning all matter directly into pure energy from a single lemon is enough to disintegrate the Eiffel Tower (and probably the rest of Paris too)

[@LostForNr.1]

Nuclar fission lemons lets go

[@heyho4770]

​@@LostForNr.1 transforming 100% of matter into Energy requires Annihilation via Antimatter

[@DatDeadMemer]

THE ANTI LEMON

[@Someguy-lb9tp]

Ferb I know what we're gonna do today

[@anitheproto]

i thought this was going to be a video about the electrical output of lemons and using that to run enough current through the eiffel tower to cause it to heat up enough to melt, but this is actually interesting too

[@edwinmaster7326]

lemons should be the power source of the rides

[@realsillybilly]

I love this side of KZbin.

[@anitheproto]

@@realsillybilly thsnks

[@Gabahoe]

Cave Johnson would be proud

[@texasred5665]

Yeah! Oh I like this guy!

[@miigon9117]

His combustible lemons surely would be of great help

[@MoolsDogTwoOfficial]

He was a definite highlight of Portal 2.

[@Balvald]

R&D at Aperture Science trying to weaponize Lemons.

[@Dim-J]

my guy made a business plan for the amusement park. 10/10

[@waaagh3262]

I decided to bust out the high school chem, and with a bit of research found that the Eiffel tower had a metal (iron) mass of 7,300,000,000 grams. Which when divided by its molecular mass (55.84) gave a total number of moles to be 1.31x10^8, this react in a 1 to 1 ratio with iron oxide (fe2O3) to form your iron citrate complex. One lemon has 0.025 mole of citric acid, so the absolute minimum number of lemons you would need would be 5.233x10^10, or just 2.355x10^8 litres of juice

[@benjaminplassart4189]

hi !can you explain how you got the 1:1 ratio please ? I try to find the chemical reaction between Iron oxyde and citric acid and i get : Fe2O3 + 2C6H8O7 = 2C6H5FeO7 (Iron citrate) + 3H2O. Thanks !

[@ShubhayooBanerjee]

THIS IS THE TYPE OF CONTENT I WANT ON KZbin LES GOOOOOO

[@fredthefish6640]

Indeed this is the shit, definitely not the average garbage people make today.

[@A59ri]

this is all youtube should be, really well animated stick men on very serious topics.

[@someonehavinganidentitycrisis]

What about poorly animated log men on very silly topics

[@winterplayz-robloxmore8478]

​@@someonehavinganidentitycrisis 🥴

[@DillyDally69]

Yall were serious about melting the tower? 😭

[@A59ri]

@@DillyDally69 yeah?

[@DillyDally69]

Whatchu mean by very serious topics?

[@captainpalegg2860]

video suggestion: power-washing the grand canyon until the entire state of arizona is eroded down to sea level.

[@felpshehe]

Alright, that seems economically and environmentally sound.

[@aperson9236]

Ah yes, Shower Thoughts with some thought put into them

[@yoongzy]

When life gives you lemons, don't make lemonade. Make the Eiffel Tower melt instead! - Cave Johnson, 2011

[@GoldenGrenadier]

Of course a British person would default to melting the eiffel tower. The 100 years war must have left left trauma on a genetic level.

[@MuchWhittering]

A British person with an Australian accent?

[@GoldenGrenadier]

@@MuchWhittering oops. I guess he still could have the generational trauma maybe.

[@dwaynekeenum1916]

@@MuchWhitteringAustralians were jailed Brits

[@theanarchonazbolinquisition]

This has some real ”one trillion lions vs the sun” energy

[@stupidhatmanjoshua7640]

"We wouldn't want to waste food or resources" 2 seconds later: "We can't use the more practical solution. It wouldn't be as much fun"

[@andrewsad1]

This is exactly, _precisely_ the type of nonsense that I could spend several hours researching

[@Uber_]

Nice timing considering concerns are rising about the collapse of the Eiffel Tower due to a poor maintenance right now lol

[@thedogmaster278]

ill keep this in mind next time i have 8765333333333333.33 lemons thx man!

[@Uniphy]

Single greatest question humanity has asked to date

[@Salt_and_Peroxide]

Instructions unclear I made a nuclear reaction based on thorium

[@greenhowie]

This was better structured and more viable than 90% of pitches on Dragon's Den.

[@FBManimations]

Never have I clicked on a video so fast after it got recommended, why was I so exited to see this?

[@scratchpad7954]

I beg you, do NOT make me ride an open-air escalator 1,000 feet up! I would faint on sight.

[@KimblesTheBrave]

Pay $5 extra to swap the safety glasses for eclipse glasses so you can't see how high up you are

[@Reverend_Salem]

fine, its just a normal spiral staircase

[@sajeucettefoistunevaspasme]

really feels like "please do not give that cup of water right next to since I'm not thirsty at all and I don't need it, I beg you do NOT give it to me in the newt 20 seconds"

[@scratchpad7954]

@@Reverend_Salem All the same, it had better not be an industrial staircase. The only use for them is to make grated cheese for a taco. Also, a prankster waiting downstairs could reach between the treads and scare the daylight out of those whose ankles they can grab.

[@AbLaV]

I forgot about the start of this video being about lemons eroding your teeth, so the circle back to the teeth at the end cracked me up. This was an excellent video, this is why I love KZbin and creators like you. The most random shit ever and making deep, researched, well thought out content on it.

[@gaimnbro9337]

That isn't what I expected... wait brb gonna build that amusement park sounds fire

[@wweis6772]

This video made me feel like I'm chewing on a lemon and finding my purpose in life at the same time

[@adirmiller2141]

This sir is a masterpiece

[@UniverseUA]

Citric acid reacts with both iron and rust, producing iron citrate

[@superray9499]

The chemical equation at 6:54 is a bit wrong It says that iron + oxygen + water -> iron hydroxide which is wrong It actually makes hydrated iron oxide Fe2O3xH20

[@SirLegoStud6]

"Hey Ferb! I know what we’re gonna do today!"

[@wirdhikdputra]

... Never expect this silly thing to be so.. complicated

[@Gamert80]

I love how he applied a 4 dollar discount to the 702 billion dollar order 😂

[@NikitkaDreamer]

Imma try calculate it myself before the video starts pH of lemon juice is like ~3. 10^-3 moles of H+ ions in a liter of lemon juice. The Eiffel tower consists of 7300 tonnes of iron. Iron has density of 7870 g/L, meaning same amount of volume contains 107 moles of iron. The reaction stoichiometry is 1:1, since oxidized iron is going to be trivalent and citric acid has 3 acidic hydroxyl moieties. Assuming 40 mls of juice as median for each lemon, we need 25 lemons squeezed out completely and distilled under vacuum for about a liter of juice. 107*10^3 L of juice is needed for 1 L of iron, and time that by 25 we get 214 thousand lemons. 7300 000 kg / 7,87 kg = 927573. Times 214 thousand. 198,5 million lemons ± whatever

[@dunodisko2217]

Okay so now calculate how many lemons you would need to produce a lemon battery large enough to produce enough current to melt it with actual heat

[@sanep_]

Chemically using the surface area to determine the amount of lemon acid is wrong, you need to determine the chemical equation and calculate based on that how much citric acid you need. Also you need to consider the mass of the entire Eiffel Tower, once the acid reacts with the surface it won’t keep reacting if you only take the amount needed to cover the surface.

[@xai38-809]

We need to test this to make sure it's true. We absolutely cannot be certain otherwise.

[@Randomusername998-ti3tn]

Wouldnt it hypothetically be more cost effective to set up a giant series of sprinklers around the effiel tower and have a factory process to squeeze said lemons for their acid before putting them through said sprinkler system?

[@EthanTheWerewolf]

Very useful info, subbed and booked a plane ticket to Paris with a totaly not suspicious amount of lemons

[@UltraWorlds]

sure i'll invest

[@goldchromee335]

“You know what? When life gives you lemons, don’t make lemonade! Throw the lemons back at life” - Cave Johnson

[@seriousnorbo3838]

9:17 i love how middle color of the france flag is there

[@Urban_Lab369]

Her: hes probably thinking about other women Him:

[@ManWhoIsSus]

Glad to find this channel, I really love when yt algorithm works.

[@iusethisnameformygoogleacc1013]

I kind of love that this absolutely loses track of the question and just starts being about how much money you could make by charging a few hundred thousand people to get an an impossible ride.

[@Jeonghanaii]

How am I so early? Also this is so random but coolat the same time!

[@lektik2941]

I love how the plan for the amusement park comes in to play before the question is asked: "will this even work?"

[@liamwright250]

Only the most important and beneficial thought experiments.

[@dancoroian1]

"Our lemonade is full of iron" And paint...and bird sh!t lol 😂

[@Doc-Blitzkrieg]

The question in life I never knew I needed the answer to until just now.

[@farrionm2409]

A spiral or “helix” escalator might actually be more ergonomic. It would allow you to spend more time acidifying the tower rather than the long and empty vertical trip there and back that a standard escalator would provide. You could squeeze on the way up and the way down, simultaneously, allowing for maximum acidification. It would also look cool as hell.

[@therealgeneralMacArthur]

"we would like to take a moment to thank Cave Johnson and aperture science for sponsoring this video"

[@shadowisinsane845]

The video I watched before this was 2 hours long, and youtube glitched and showed me this video was 2 hours long and I audibly sighed

[@MakriaMicronation]

I started tasting lemon juice in my mouth while watching this

[@Yezpahr]

How much desert soil could you cover in a 10 meters thick layer of the peels from these lemons? That would put things into perspective, you see?

[@arynnbeefox3014]

watched this while getting ready for bed. made for a delightfully unusual bedtime story

[@Cipher_Paul]

5:00 Paris often receives more than 11 millions tourists a year. So if you make them all come around the same date and have them squeeze each a lemon or two on top of the Eiffel Tower, then it's doable 😂

[@Goofygoober584]

Now I know what I’m going to do this weekend

[@KebboStar]

Already have my hazmat suit, just need lemons

[@KebboStar]

Hazmat suit because france is so toxic 👽

[@howdydobuckeroo1204]

I clicked on this by complete accident without reading the title. So it was insanely funny when I realised I was watching a video about some guy trying to figure out how many lemons it would take to melt the Eiffel Tower.

[@riverjoy5658]

This video is hilariously fantastic, and also the definition of "Letting the intrusive thoughts win"

[@shannonhoward4792]

At 1:38 the diagram suggests that eggs can do it too. How many eggs will it take?

[@Quaxo21]

You’ve done cave Johnson proud

[@fallbranch]

Damn. I won't live to see it happen, huh? But we can start today, and maybe our children will get to.

[@MrThink.Science]

🤞

[@CuredSpinefish]

Finally, just the video I need

[@TheRealGregariousGreg]

Well ferb, I know what We're gonna do today!

[@pieandcheese1016]

This sounds like he’s prepared to try to answer this question to someone who constantly says, “But that doesn’t make sense!” On hypotheticals

[@TommyCullen-VacuumConnisour]

I'm off to paris

[@mateusjoaquim9122]

Xkcd would be proud, it could be a topic on what if 3

[@Ultimate_Hater75]

You're assuming I won't drink all the lemons first. Which is a bad move.

[@abucket14]

Now that you've come up with a theory, I will contribute a bag of lemons to make it happen.

[@illuminoeye_gaming]

this is the level of critical thinking i'd expect from a neanderthal

[@clodolcmidnights837]

CAVE, NO, YOU CANT BURN DOWN THE EIFFEL TOWER WITH THE LEMONS

[@klaklaplaplaleuszek9970]

Great video very informative im definetly going to do this!

[@skud1377]

Wouldn't sprinkles be ineffective because they split the juice into individual drops / mist that would cause a ton of oxidation?

[@Cheezeball99999]

This is the correct kind of math.

[@Aksel.h]

My yt recommendations: Yep he'll watch anything

[@cheeseboi6357]

Finally someone is answering the important questions

[@PumaVoid]

What happens when the French give Cave Johnson lemons. I DONT WANT YOUR DAMN LEMONS

[@BurgerSoda]

This really helped me, flying to paris rn.

[@TheTrytix]

"I say we go." "Go with the hunch of a man who's brain is fueled by LEMONS?!?"

[@goofytycooner5519]

Glad to see we’re asking the important questions here

[@MrGeorgeFlorcus]

"You know, I've been thinking. When life gives you lemons, don't make lemonade, make life take the lemons back! GET MAD! I don't want your damn lemons, what am I supposed to do with these? Demand to see France's lawyer! Make France rue the day they thought they could give Mr Think lemons, DO YOU KNOW WHO I AM?! I'm the man who's gonna MELT THE EIFFEL TOWER! With the lemons! I'm going to have my scientists invent a high citric acid yielding lemon that MELTS THE EIFFEL TOWER!"

[@jasonsanders8797]

I instantly thought "that's a really good question ".

[@Robot_GEANT]

THAT is why we invented the internet.

[@demonicdynamite]

It would have to be more efficient to use them as batteries

[@martindrengenxbox360]

I closed my eyes, swiped on my phone, and then tapped the screen. That's how I found this video. I was not disappointed.

[@nodrance]

Good vid, I love the concept, but you make a lot of estimates with nothing backing them up (for example, lemons make rust happen 2x faster, it's probably more, and the surface area, you never mention where you get that)

[@snnnnzzzzz]

Knee Anderthall making them math problems a reality

[@the_man3750]

me calculating how much silicon i need in mindustry:

[@RobertoDeMundo]

One strawberry flavoured ice cube (iykyk)

[@GogiRegion]

Avoid acidic drinks? I get 90% of my hydration from lemon water with a pH lower than soda. My teeth are going to hate me.

[@daleyalyce6003]

You are under the Eiffel tower, but then a giant lemon comes

[@oppositevoice]

A truly modest proposal...

[@cataclismicall]

Aw man, now france is gonna see this and ban squeezing lemons onto the tower's supports

[@angwelio]

Finally something interesting to see instead of doing whatever it is you do in class