If life gives you lemons, melt the Eiffel Tower

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

Next up. Turning the pyramids into sand with sandpaper.

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

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?”

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.

Cave Johnson would be proud

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

R&D at Aperture Science trying to weaponize Lemons.

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

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)

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Alright, that seems economically and environmentally sound.

Ah yes, Shower Thoughts with some thought put into them

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

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

"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"

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

Instructions unclear I made a nuclear reaction based on thorium

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

Single greatest question humanity has asked to date

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

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

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

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

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

This sir is a masterpiece

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

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 KZfaq and creators like you. The most random shit ever and making deep, researched, well thought out content on it.

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

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

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

sure i'll invest

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

Great video very informative im definetly going to do this!

Already have my hazmat suit, just need lemons

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

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

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?

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

Glad to see we’re asking the important questions here

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

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

Thank you algorithm. This is the exact question I needed to answer

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

I'm off to paris

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

Banger vid 10/10 subscribed

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

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

Finally, just the video I need

What an awesome idea for a video, subbed

You’ve done cave Johnson proud

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

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

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

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

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?

Awesome man! When we getting started?

Thanks for the tip

Yes... YES! Splendid! 🦹🏻‍♀️

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

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

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.

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)

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

Finally someone is answering the important questions

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

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

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

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 😂

Her: hes probably thinking about other women Him:

This is the correct kind of math.

Only the most important and beneficial thought experiments.

My yt recommendations: Yep he'll watch anything

me calculating how much silicon i need in mindustry:

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

Now this is the question people are asking

Now I need an animation of the “Your Majesty, another bus is coming!” With a lemon and the Eiffel Tower

This really helped me, flying to paris rn.

most normal minute physics video

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.

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

Heinz Doofensmertz levels of planning

this is art.

“Ferb! I know what we’re doing today!”

My mans, you must have passed your school presentations with flying colors

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.

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

This reminds me of the bagel bite problem. According to the instructions on the box, how long does it take to perfectly cook a single bagel bite?

I started tasting lemon juice in my mouth while watching this

A truly modest proposal...

Knee Anderthall making them math problems a reality

"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!"

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