Average American has energy equivalent of 450 human slaves working 8 hours shifts every day

Next Big Future ^ | November 20,2015 | Brian Wang

[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

[If You Want It Fixed - Fix It]

Its all white racism. I dont have slaves though, i got hoes. Wait,

[Paladin2]

No, electricity is slavery and we need to stop making CO2 to save the Erf at the upcominng Parris meeting of commies.

[Paladin2]

You need the unmetered nuke u leer power promised in the 50s. Or a Mr. Fusion...

[CARTOUCHE]

My slaves would work from sun-up to sundown, none of this 8 hour crap. Of course there would always be one or two running the bicycle powered generators to keep the phones charged and the night lights lit.

[Political Junkie Too]

Bring back the long Mandarin fingernails.

-PJ

[Fresh Wind]

This master cylinder?

He always seeks to control Felix The Cat, who is black. Definitely racist.

[military cop]

This might be the dumbest comparison article I never finished reading....

RLTW

[fella]

Through out human history it is freedom and liberty that have been the aberrations. And now the forces of tyranny are close to enforcing total subjugation upon humanity again.

“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”

[cuban leaf]

A huge part is how many it would take to pull your car around.

[MV=PY]

"So the energy released would be almost 5 times the amount released from nuclear weapon."

Wow! That's gonna put the terrorist belt manufacturers out of business.

[rktman]

Uh, yup. Thus we are still guilty for slavery. Or something. It gets loonier and loonier by the day.

[ETL]

Wow! That's gonna put the terrorist belt manufacturers out of business.

Lol! Fortunately, it doesn't appear to be something that can actually put to use.

[Flick Lives]

450 slaves and no one to make me a samich.

[Moonman62]

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

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Many in the South held the belief that slaves were better off in America than they would be back in Africa, slave or otherwise.

[libertarian27]

Thanks, I couldn’t find that video either. This was interesting, child labor in a recycle glass factory....if the boy didn’t work - his family would starve...so where do you go with that information? UNICEF workers there were not stopping child labor there because families would starve.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJiOSuG9gZ4
Where Children Must Work - Tropic Of Cancer - Episode 5 Preview - BBC Two (Bangladesh)

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

Slave labor is vastly overrated. In the pre-Civil War South, there was a saying that with a lot of patience and a year of training, a slave might be competent to push a broom or pull a rope.

And there were a LOT of jokes about how lazy slaves could be.

One of the best motivators of slaves was the threat that if they did not get to work, they would be “sold down the river”, which was a literal threat. The river was the Mississippi, and there were sugar cane plantations in its delta. And harvesting sugar cane is extremely hard and unpleasant work.

So the threat was get to work or you will be sold to a sugar cane plantation.

[pa_dweller]

Bwahahahahaaa!

[Pajamajan]

Bookmark

[moovova]

Does that include afternoon nap time?

[MosesKnows]

we come to a grand total of just over $160

This is an excellent example of inflation. I was very young the first time I saw this calculation and the value was less than $1. The next time was 1977 and the bill of material's value was $5.70.