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Average American has energy equivalent of 450 human slaves working 8 hours shifts every day
Next Big Future ^ | November 20,2015 | Brian Wang

Posted on 11/23/2015 3:11:25 AM PST by jmcenanly

1 horsepower approximates the sustained work output of a horse A healthy human can sustain about 0.1 hp indefinitely which is 74.5 watts 1 horsepower is the sustained effort of ten people 1 horse power = 745.6 watts = 33000 ft-lb/min The average american uses 13,250 kWh/year in electricity Which is 36 kwh/day Which is 1512 watts constant US average per person electrical energy is like 20 human slaves 24 hours per day 60 human slaves on 8 hour shifts 7 days a week

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TOPICS: AMERICA - The Right Way!!; Business/Economy
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1 posted on 11/23/2015 3:11:25 AM PST by jmcenanly
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To: jmcenanly

So, using electricity is racist?


2 posted on 11/23/2015 3:12:51 AM PST by Fresh Wind (Falcon 105)
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So - If I have all those people working for me,
why am I so tired?

3 posted on 11/23/2015 3:15:48 AM PST by shibumi (Vampire Outlaw of the Milky Way)
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To: Fresh Wind

4 posted on 11/23/2015 3:16:53 AM PST by Vaquero ( Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: Fresh Wind

>>So, using electricity is racist?

No, this is the reason why the Elites are on the climate change bandwagon. If you take the energy away from the people, they have to labor longer and harder. That means they don’t have the time or energy to rise up. The Elites of both parties see a life of luxury as something they are owed and something that we should never have.

Stupid young Progressives can’t understand the physics of abundant electricity and internal combustion engines—things that serve as mechanical slaves that make our lives quite wonderful compared to those of every generation that has ever lived.


5 posted on 11/23/2015 3:20:48 AM PST by Bryanw92 (Sic semper tyrannis)
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To: jmcenanly

Don’t forget to add the people working eight hour shifts and paying taxes to support welfare layabouts.


6 posted on 11/23/2015 3:23:49 AM PST by shoff (Vote Democratic it beats thinking!)
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To: jmcenanly

“The average american uses 13,250 kWh/year in electricity

Cool! I win! Ours is closer to 20,000 kWh/year. Of course, it’s an all electric home supporting a small farm operation (hay, horses, etc.). We get quarterly ‘updates’ from AEP telling us we use more than our neighbors, and we should conserve.

Forget that the power companies were ALL about switching over to electric services back when this house was built.

Buncha dadgummed cockamamie BS, IMO.

Stupid fedgov ‘energy policy’ crap. An area where there is no Constitutional authority for them. And, now, fifty years in, they’ve so mucked up the works that it may never get resolved.

Time to water Jefferson’s tree...


7 posted on 11/23/2015 3:28:43 AM PST by PubliusMM (RKBA; a matter of fact, not opinion. 01-20-2017; I pray we make it that long.)
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To: jmcenanly


8 posted on 11/23/2015 3:29:53 AM PST by JoeProBono (SOME IMAGES MAY BE DISTURBING ’VIEWER DISCRETION IS ADVISED;-{)
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To: jmcenanly

Several years ago activists went after one of the high-end sneaker companies for contracting with a plant in Africa that used child labor. The company dropped the contract. A year later a reporter traveled to the plant to do a story on how the lives of the children had improved. The plant was empty so he went to the police to find out where the children were. A helpful cop told him, “They’re probably all dead.” Turns out the alternative to working in the plant was dealing drugs or selling their bodies for food. Both are extremely dangerous.

In real life there is seldom a clear good or evil. Mostly its just shades of evil. Some are darker than others.


9 posted on 11/23/2015 3:33:04 AM PST by Gen.Blather
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To: Fresh Wind

Electricity is like heavy artillery - a force multiplier.


10 posted on 11/23/2015 3:35:09 AM PST by 21twelve (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2185147/posts It is happening again.)
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To: jmcenanly
1512 watts constant US average per person electrical energy is like 20 human slaves 24 hours per day 60 human slaves on 8 hour shifts 7 days a week

To obtain the same wattage, the human numbers would have to triple if they were unionized.......

11 posted on 11/23/2015 3:36:32 AM PST by Hot Tabasco
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To: jmcenanly

“let’s assume that you could convert all of the atoms in a human body to energy.

The amount of energy stored in a given amount of mass is given by the formula E = mc^2.

A mass of 1 kg therefore releases:

E = (1 kg)(3.00e8 m/s)^2

E = 9.0e16 J

That’s equivalent to about 21.5 megatons of TNT, or the approximate explosive yield of a large hydrogen bomb.

And that’s just one kilogram (2.2 lbs).

So the explosive yield of any mass, if it is converted entirely to energy, is 21.5 megatons per kilogram (9.77 megatons per pound).
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The critical mass for a uranium fission bomb is 15 kg.
A human body weighs on average 70 kg.
So the energy released would be almost 5 times the amount released from nuclear weapon.

https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=A0LEVr4r.VJWoYQAuoknnIlQ;_ylu=X3oDMTBzZHZhNWUyBGNvbG8DYmYxBHBvcwMxNwR2dGlkAwRzZWMDc3I-?qid=20080423074547AAn72nk&p=%22human%20body%22%20nuclear%20energy


12 posted on 11/23/2015 3:37:06 AM PST by ETL (Ted Cruz 2016!! -- For a better and safer America)
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To: jmcenanly
Just what is a human body worth? The table below extends the previous table by adding two columns: A cost (per Kg) of obtaining the element in question, and a value column which is the product of the mass of that element in the body multiplied by the cost of that element.

  Element Percentage Mass [Kg] Cost/Kg Value
O Oxygen 65 49.14 $0.20 $9.83
C Carbon 18 18.29 $0.01 $0.18
H Hydrogen 10.2 8.00 $0.20 $1.60
N Nitrogen 3.1 2.06 $0.20 $0.41
Ca Calcium 1.6 1.14 $0.10 $0.11
P Phosphorus 1.2 0.89 $1.00 $0.89
K Potassium 0.25 0.16 $650.00 $104.00
S Sulfur 0.25 0.16 $0.10 $0.02
Na Sodium 0.15 0.11 $250.00 $28.57
Cl Chlorine 0.15 0.11 $1.00 $0.11
Mg Magnesium 0.05 0.02 $3.00 $0.07
Fe Iron 6.00E-03 4.80E-03 $0.20 $0.00
F Fluorine 3.70E-03 2.97E-03 $2,000.00 $5.94
Zn Zinc 3.20E-03 2.63E-03 $2.00 $0.01
Si Silicon 2.00E-03 1.14E-03 $2.00 $0.00
Rb Rubidium 4.60E-04 7.77E-04 $10,000.00 $7.77
Sr Strontium 4.60E-04 3.66E-04 $1,000.00 $0.37
Br Bromine 2.90E-04 2.97E-04 $50.00 $0.01
Pb Lead 1.70E-04 1.37E-04 $0.40 $0.00
Cu Copper 1.00E-04 8.23E-05 $7.00 $0.00
Al Aluminium 8.70E-05 6.86E-05 $2.00 $0.00
Cd Cadmium 7.20E-05 5.71E-05 $10.00 $0.00
Ce Cerium 5.00E-05 4.57E-05 $50.00 $0.00
Ba Barium 3.10E-05 2.51E-05 $60.00 $0.00
Sn Tin 2.40E-05 2.29E-05 $20.00 $0.00
I Iodine 1.60E-05 2.29E-05 $2.00 $0.00
Ti Titanium 1.30E-05 2.29E-05 $8.00 $0.00
B Boron 6.90E-05 2.06E-05 $6,000.00 $0.12
Se Selenium 1.90E-05 1.71E-05 $53.00 $0.00
Ni Nickel 1.40E-05 1.71E-05 $20.00 $0.00
Cr Chromium 2.40E-06 1.60E-05 $20.00 $0.00
Mn Manganese 1.70E-05 1.37E-05 $5.00 $0.00
As Arsenic 2.60E-05 8.00E-06 $5.00 $0.00
Li Lithium 3.10E-06 8.00E-06 $100.00 $0.00
Hg Mercury 1.90E-05 6.86E-06 $40.00 $0.00
Cs Caesium 2.10E-06 6.86E-06 $3,000.00 $0.02
Mo Molybdenum 1.30E-05 5.71E-06 $300.00 $0.00
Ge Germanium 1.30E-05 5.71E-06 $2,000.00 $0.01
Co Cobalt 2.10E-06 3.43E-06 $200.00 $0.00
Sb Antimony 1.10E-05 2.29E-06 $300.00 $0.00
Ag Silver 1.00E-06 2.29E-06 $700.00 $0.00
Nb Niobium 1.60E-04 1.71E-06 $180.00 $0.00
Zr Zirconium 6.00E-04 1.14E-06 $600.00 $0.00
La Lanthanum 2.00E-04 9.14E-07 $1,500.00 $0.00
Te Tellurium 1.20E-05 8.00E-07 $240.00 $0.00
Ga Gallium 1.20E-05 8.00E-07 $1,800.00 $0.00
Y Yttrium 1.20E-05 6.86E-07 $2,000.00 $0.00
Bi Bismuth 1.20E-05 5.71E-07 $400.00 $0.00
Tl Thallium 1.40E-05 5.71E-07 $500.00 $0.00
In Indium 1.40E-05 4.57E-07 $2,000.00 $0.00
Au Gold 1.40E-05 2.29E-07 $40,000.00 $0.01
Sc Scandium 1.40E-05 2.29E-07 $10,000.00 $0.00
Ta Tantalum 1.40E-05 2.29E-07 $200.00 $0.00
V Vanadium 2.60E-05 1.26E-07 $50.00 $0.00
Th Thorium 2.00E-07 1.14E-07 $0.00
U Uranium 1.30E-07 1.14E-07 $0.00
Sm Samarium 5.00E-09 5.71E-08 $0.00
W Tungsten 5.00E-09 2.29E-08 $0.00
Be Beryllium 5.00E-09 4.11E-08 $0.00
Ra Radium 1.00E-17 0.00E+00 $0.00

The most abudant elements in the body are pretty cheap, so they contribute very little to the value of a body. Similarly, the valuable (expensive) elements, such as Gold occur in such trace quantities that their contribution to the overall sum is noise.

The biggest contributors to the value of the body appear to be the Alkali Metals - Lithium, Sodium, Potassium, Rubidium and Caesium. Potassium appears to be the single most 'valuable' element in the body because it lies at the sweet-spot of being both reasonable common and reasonably expensive. (Hydrogen also is classified as an Alkali Metal because of its lonely electron in the outside shell, and because of the high volume of the element in the body it also makes a non-negligable contribution to the value).

The results - Just what is a body worth?

Summing up all the amounts in the Value column, we come to a grand total of just over $160.

http://www.datagenetics.com/blog/april12011/index.html

13 posted on 11/23/2015 3:44:31 AM PST by ETL (Ted Cruz 2016!! -- For a better and safer America)
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To: JoeProBono

Love that bystander horse at the end.

He must be thinking “did I just see that?”


14 posted on 11/23/2015 3:52:55 AM PST by SnuffaBolshevik
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To: Gen.Blather
A year later a reporter traveled to the plant to do a story on how the lives of the children had improved. The plant was empty so he went to the police to find out where the children were. A helpful cop told him, "They're probably all dead."

That's interesting.
Do you have a link to a story, or remember the brand, country?

15 posted on 11/23/2015 3:57:30 AM PST by libertarian27 (FR Cookbooks - On Profile Page)
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To: Bryanw92

Anything even remotely associated with slavery is racist.

Cars are racist because they have master cylinders and slave cylinders.

Computers are racist because they have bus masters and bus slaves.

Some (non-Muslim) clock systems are racist because they have master clocks and slave clocks.

Per Wikipedia:

“In 2003, the County of Los Angeles in California asked that manufacturers, suppliers and contractors to stop using “master” and “slave” terminology on its products. The controversial decision is taken by the county “based on the cultural diversity and sensitivity of Los Angeles County”. Following outcries about the decision, the County of Los Angeles issued a statement saying that the decision was “nothing more than a request”. Due to the controversy, the term was selected as the most politically incorrect word in 2004 by Global Language Monitor.”

/explicit sarcasm tag


16 posted on 11/23/2015 4:06:45 AM PST by Fresh Wind (Falcon 105)
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To: jmcenanly

The “progressives” will use this to justify enslaving the population.


17 posted on 11/23/2015 4:08:16 AM PST by Rides_A_Red_Horse (Why do you need a fire extinguisher when you can call the fire department?)
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To: Fresh Wind

I asserted my privilege by ordering a master cylinder this morning.

Philosophically speaking, is it a master since I ordered it? I’m trying to see it from a SJW viewpoint.


18 posted on 11/23/2015 4:09:54 AM PST by wally_bert (I didn't get where I am today by selling ice cream tasting of bookends, pumice stone & West Germany)
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master cylinder...Philosophically speaking, is it a master since I ordered it? I’m trying to see it from a SJW viewpoint.

For the time being, it can be referred to as a Hydraulic Community Organizer until Political Officers are appointed. Be aware that calling that actual working units as slave cylinders is flat out racist! Preferred nomenclature is union worker.

19 posted on 11/23/2015 4:19:40 AM PST by Covenantor ("Men are ruled-...by liars who passing refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern." Chesterton)
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To: libertarian27

Some of the material below is disturbing.

The company was Nike. I couldn’t find the video production where they interviewed the police. It was run on a major network. But logically, think about it. The plant owner had bought the children from their parents. The parents sold them because they couldn’t feed them. The options for children in Africa are on the last two links. I can’t defend Nike but some options are worse than others. That’s the story for most of the world. It’s funny; liberals want to live in utopia. For all practical purposes America is already the utopian society. (Or, it was before the last 20 years or so.)

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/green-living-blog/2012/jul/06/activism-nike

https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=What+happened+after+Nike+closed+their+african+plant

https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=What+happens+to+child+labor+in+africa+sex+

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=child+labor+in+africa+nike


20 posted on 11/23/2015 4:20:00 AM PST by Gen.Blather
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