Human energy

[TheTROLL]

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Do you know what a calorie is?

It is enough energy to heat a litre of water by 1 centigrade.

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Bit more to it than that: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kilocalorie

[Hedge Henderson]

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If I'm not mistaken, we actually eat like 2 million calories in a day.

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Yeah, you got me. I didn't capitalize Calories. It was late, and I have a tough time playing O/8 and capitalizing at the same time.

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its wrong in the sense that nobody can put out 300W of physical force over really any period of time.

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Probably, but it can't be that far off. Heck it's less than one-half horsepower, right? [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]

I just made some rough calculations assuming an areobic scope of 13, metabolic efficiency of 50% (okay, just glucose), ATP-to-mechanical energy of 50%, and generator efficiency of 75%. No doubt I missed something, but I haven't taken the time to locate my notes from comparative physiology last fall.

[2+2 wannabe]

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I just made some rough calculations assuming an areobic scope of 13, metabolic efficiency of 50% (okay, just glucose), ATP-to-mechanical energy of 50%, and generator efficiency of 75%. No doubt I missed something, but I haven't taken the time to locate my notes from comparative physiology last fall.

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yeah that's what i was going to do too..............

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[goofball]

C'mon. Someone do the math on lance armstrong.

He uses a simple machine to do a shitload of work. (work in the physics sense)