DARPA To Turn Humans Into Batteries 183
DARPA is working on a project that will convert energy from the human body to power a variety of military gadgets. From the article: "Obviously, our bodies generate heat — thermal energy. They also produce vibrations when we move — kinetic energy. Both forms of energy can be converted into electricity. Anantha Chandrakasan, an MIT electrical engineering professor, who is working on the problem with a former student named Yogesh Ramadass, says the challenge is to harvest adequate amounts of power from the body and then efficiently direct it to the device that needs it." If I remember the movie correctly, this didn't turn out so well for the humans.
Simple (Score:3, Informative)
You combine it with a form of fusionm duh.
average human is 75-watt light bulb (Score:5, Informative)
Re:average human is 75-watt light bulb (Score:3, Informative)
It was obvious that you were calculating the average. However, you were correcting someone who was pointing out that human beings are a 75 watt lightbulb, and in the comment clearly added the condition "at rest". And a 225 watt lightbulb during aerobic.
You can use those two numbers to come up with a guesstimate of activity level as a function of GI tract efficency (assuming a boolean activity level), which would be nifty.
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Re:How many KiloCalories if you burn a human? (Score:4, Informative)
A gram of fat is 9 kcal and a gram of protein is 4 kcal for a person. Not sure if there is anything else in the human body that would store energy, the carbohydate amount is small enough that its neglegible.
So a person weighing 75 kilos would have 155 250 kcal in his body. I imagine that when burning that however a lot of the energy would be lost to evaporating the water in the human body.