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How long does it take a modern windmill to generate the amount of energy it takes to produce the windmill?

1698 upvotes • YetiCrabKing

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What is the theoretical maximum size of a terrestrial planet?

1698 upvotes • C4sualt1

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AskScience AMA Series: I'm a comparative psychologist that helped octopuses, lobsters, and their relatives be recognized in the UK as sentient beings. (See video of my cuttlefish "marshmallow test" self-control study in description.) AMA!

1697 upvotes • AskScienceModerator

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Besides the spike protein, do we know of other epitopes on the SARS-CoV-2 virion that are capable of inducing neutralising antibodies?

1696 upvotes • Liamlah

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What will be the environmental impact of de-orbiting 42,000 Starlink satellites every five years? (Explanation in post)

1696 upvotes • OvidPerl

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Nitrogen is a gas that pretty much no one cares about and our bodies don't metabolize it, yet it makes up 79% of the air we breathe. Given that we only require oxygen, could you replace nitrogen with any other inert gas and breathe just fine?

1696 upvotes • SalemStarburn

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Which toe is most important to have in order to maintain a regular gait?

1695 upvotes • ConTully

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Why is elevating your heart rate through exercise good for your heart but elevating you heart rate with caffeine bad for it?

1695 upvotes • DanTallTrees

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Is there a proof that the maximum value for the multiplication of a set of positive numbers of finite sum is achieved when the numbers are all "e"?

1695 upvotes • foodfighter

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Does natural infection from coronaviruses produce neutralizing antibodies to envelope proteins and membrane proteins of the virus in addition to the spike protein?

1694 upvotes • GebeTheArrow

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Title	Upvotes	Author	Mark as read	Favorited	Rating	Add to a list
How long does it take a modern windmill to generate the amount of energy it takes to produce the windmill?	1698	YetiCrabKing
What is the theoretical maximum size of a terrestrial planet?	1698	C4sualt1
AskScience AMA Series: I'm a comparative psychologist that helped octopuses, lobsters, and their relatives be recognized in the UK as sentient beings. (See video of my cuttlefish "marshmallow test" self-control study in description.) AMA!	1697	AskScienceModerator
Besides the spike protein, do we know of other epitopes on the SARS-CoV-2 virion that are capable of inducing neutralising antibodies?	1696	Liamlah
What will be the environmental impact of de-orbiting 42,000 Starlink satellites every five years? (Explanation in post)	1696	OvidPerl
Nitrogen is a gas that pretty much no one cares about and our bodies don't metabolize it, yet it makes up 79% of the air we breathe. Given that we only require oxygen, could you replace nitrogen with any other inert gas and breathe just fine?	1696	SalemStarburn
Which toe is most important to have in order to maintain a regular gait?	1695	ConTully
Why is elevating your heart rate through exercise good for your heart but elevating you heart rate with caffeine bad for it?	1695	DanTallTrees
Is there a proof that the maximum value for the multiplication of a set of positive numbers of finite sum is achieved when the numbers are all "e"?	1695	foodfighter
Does natural infection from coronaviruses produce neutralizing antibodies to envelope proteins and membrane proteins of the virus in addition to the spike protein?	1694	GebeTheArrow