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    Jackie posted an update 11 years, 8 months ago

    Many of you will have already seen this, but I saw it this morning and thought I’d repost. It’s the world’s largest teapot building in the Museum of Tea Culture in Meitan County, China. 73.8 meters in height, on over 5,000 square meters, this unique museum in south west China looks pretty impressive.
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      bram replied 11 years, 8 months ago

      You can give a lot of people tea with that pot. Especially if you use china cup size cups. But then again the do have a lot of people.

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        bram replied 11 years, 8 months ago

        The pot is roughly half as width as its height. So r ~ h/4, h = 738 dm. so the volume is roughly (pi)rh ~ (pi)(h^2)/4 ~ 427545 liter. That is 21377277 cups of 20ml. And that is in one steep.

        So to let the ~1.35 billion people have a drink they have to steep only 63 times.

        And only 327 times to give the entire world population of ~7 billion a drink.

        Now, how much tea leaves does this require?