User blog:DreamcrosserSquad/Calculation: Skyscraper goes oof

In Chapter 2 of SE, Nyx kicks Alpha into a skyscraper, causing it to collapse.

According to Wikipedia i was too lazy to find any better sources oooof, the minimum height required to be considered a skyscraper is 150 meters. I'll use this for the height, and I'll assume the width + depth are 20 meters. As a result, I get a total volume of 60000 m^3 or 6e+10 cm^3. Now here's the fun part.

Low-Low: 90% glass, 10% concrete, fragmentation

Low-High: 80% glass, 20% concrete, fragmentation

High-Low: 90% glass, 10% concrete, violent fragmentation

High-High: 80% glass, 20% concrete, violent fragmentation

Low-Low/Low-High Volumes: 5.4e+10 cm^3 of glass, 6.e+9 cm^3 of concrete

High-Low/High-High Volumes: 4.8e+10 cm^3 of glass, 1.2e+10 cm^3 of concrete

Since violent fragmentation for concrete is 17-20 j/cm^3, I will use the mean, which is 18.5 j/cm^3.

Here are the results:

Low-Low Energy: 7.65e+10 joules or 18.283938814532 tons of TNT, City Block level

Low-High Energy: 1.08e+11 joules or 25.8126195028681 tons of TNT, City Block level

High-Low Energy: 1.65e+11 joules or 39.4359464627151 tons of TNT, City Block level

High-High Energy: 2.7e+11 joules or 64.5315487571702 tons of TNT, City Block level+

8-B SE, nice.