So while watching Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs with the roomies tonight we went down the rabbit hole of trying to figure out how many lightbulbs it would take to power Flint Lockwood’s food machine and let me just say...
Flint says he needs 17,000 more gigajoules and (according to Alexa/Google) there’s a billion watts in a gigajoule, so that’s 17,000,000,000 watts and if you divide that by 70 for the average light bulb that amounts for around 242,857,142,857 light bulbs
And APPARENTLY (according to Wikipedia) there are only around 12,000,000,000 light bulbs in the world, so he would need enough power for 20.23x the amount of lightbulbs that EXIST to power the food machine and he somehow gets all that from the power grid of a small island town that used to sell sardines. (while that math while not be 100% accurate and it’s a fictional movie, that’s a LOT of power needed)
