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Originally Posted by Anthony
It's quite low energy compared to the oxygen reactions.
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Yep.
The stuff I'm reading tells me that most/all of the anaerobic methods generate 2 ATP per, while the aerobic method generates 30/ish ATP per (theoretically up to 38 ATP though nothing on Earth does that level of efficiency). Aerobic is up to 15 times more efficient than Anaerobic.