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> You can get 59 megajoules out of your wall socket if you wait long enough.

Assuming a French wall socket, 240 V at 13 amps, and a pure resistive load, that will take

  $ units
  Currency exchange rates from FloatRates (USD base) on 2020-11-15
  3677 units, 109 prefixes, 114 nonlinear units
  
  You have: 59 MJ
  You want: (240 V * 13 A) * s
          * 18910.256
          / 5.2881356e-05
  You have: 18910.256 s
  You want: hms
          5 hr + 15 min + 10.256 sec
which helps put the figure in perspective.


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