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Sep 30, 2019 at 19:27 comment added David White @PM2Ring, I suppose that the children of "Termites" really would eat the parents out of house and home.
May 7, 2019 at 15:07 comment added PM 2Ring @ErinB The amount of smoke isn't important, to know the calories we just need to know the amount of heat produced. See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calorimeter FWIW, there's a beautiful but tragic science fiction story named Termites, by Dave Smeeds, which tells the tale of people who have been given genetically engineered gut bacteria so that they can digest cellulose.
Aug 15, 2018 at 7:38 comment added Anders Sandberg An interesting look at how to "eat" wood and other plant biomass can be found in Denkenberger and Pearce's book "Feeding Everyone No Matter What" en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feeding_Everyone_No_Matter_What They outline various methods of turning the cellulose into digestible nutrients, mostly using fungi, bacteria and insects.
Aug 15, 2018 at 1:31 vote accept Erin B
Aug 14, 2018 at 21:20 comment added Erin B I was under the impression that it was related by the amount of smoke released when burnt, does this mean that mashed potatoes provide just as much smoke when burnt as wood?
Aug 14, 2018 at 21:14 history answered DJohnM CC BY-SA 4.0