From: Christian Weisgerber (naddy@mips.inka.de)
Date: Thu Mar 06 2003 - 14:08:47 MST
Adrian Tymes <wingcat@pacbell.net> wrote:
> Data point: as mentioned elsewhere, the RDA for an
> adult male is 2200 calories. This is about 9.2
> kilojoules,
You are off by a factor of 1000 here. Dietary "calories" are
actually kilocalories. I can't find a source for this now, but I
seem to recall that the heat output of a resting human is ~20W.
Powering, say, an implanted cell phone from metabolic power would
hardly register in the bottom line.
> As I said, miniscule amounts of power...
Not so.
-- Christian "naddy" Weisgerber naddy@mips.inka.de
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