Eli5: Does drinking hot water replenish more energy because hot things have more energy in them?
In: Biology
No. Although your reasoning is right about the energy, you’re missing that energy expresses itself in a lot of ways. Energy related to temperature is called cinetic energy, and depend of the ‘level’ of excitation that particles of something have.¿
Besides, the human body obtains energy in a lot of ways, but we obtain the most by the chemical process of ‘extracting’ calories (and some other things of course) from food which is called metabolism, and it’s related of course with the amount of calories and the other things contained in food.In this case, water has no calories, so hot water will have a high level of cinetic energy but it’s still water. ‘Chemically’ speaking, it’s still water with zero calories.
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