• 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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      2 years ago

      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