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To: Blood of Tyrants; topher
I am not sure what’s happening to the math and all the megas and gigas in here.

If a human being is capable of providing 0.1 HP of power and it is convertible to energy at 100% (which is impossible), then we are talking about 74.6 W of output power.

Pedaling for 20 hours will produce 1.492 KWh not KW.

Obviously 1 billion people therefore will produce 1,492 GWh (Giga Watt Hours) - which is nothing to sneeze at.

It takes a nuclear power plant to produce 1,000 MW. In fact the largest nuke plant in US is Palo Verde 2 with an output of 1,335 MW. The largest power plant in the world is ITAIPU which is a hydro plant with an output of 12,600 MW.

Thought I sort this out.

44 posted on 07/25/2007 2:34:51 PM PDT by vader69
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To: vader69

Now divide 1482 MW hours by 168 (because a power plant works 24/7/365) and you get a little over a 8800 Mega watts. Eight nuke or coal fired power plants a heck of a lot less than 20 BILLION manhours per week.

But look at it this way, all those people in China and India now have a job ;^)


64 posted on 07/26/2007 6:48:13 AM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (G-d is not a Republican. But Satan is definitely a Democrat.)
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