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surely this uses more aluminum
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It may use less aluminum, as the top and bottom surfaces are much thicker
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I'm shit at math, but probably not? If both contain the same amount of liquid, are filled to the same point and both are round (which they are lol), I don't see how those would require more material.
And even if, if they double the price per can, it's absolutely worth it.
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I found this same thought on this same post a year ago. Someone already crunched the numbers and it seems with the volume constant but height growing, the surface area increases
Original discussion: https://lemmy.world/comment/8371055
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A further complication is that the aluminium is considerably thicker on the base and the top.. so there's more thin metal, and less thick metal.
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Why don't we just weigh them?
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Shut up with your logic! I'm going to the grocery store...
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To illustrate, imagine if we kept getting taller and taller - like trying to fit the same volume of soda in a pencil-thin can that's about a meter long.
You use more and more aluminum the further away it gets from the minimum surface-area-to-volume container, which would be a sphere
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You have never taken calculus.
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No, that's what I said with my very first sentence.
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Have you? AP calculus doesn't count.
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