180 pound Man= Generates how many watts or BTU`s to keep alive?

Subject: 180 pound Man= Generates how many watts or BTU`s to keep alive?

Date: Thu Oct 22 20:47:42 1998
Posted by Dan Blake
Grade level: other
School: No school entered.
City: St. Petersburg State/Province: Fl.
Country: USA
Area of science: Engineering
ID: 909107262.Eg

Message:


If a 180 pound man ran on electricity how many watts or btu`s would it 
take to stay alive- laying in bed, joging? As compared to a man made
robot today, I was wondering how much more efficient a human is in 
terms of heat production per weight as compaired to a equal size machine with 
the same strength+speed+mass. Has anybody ever
figured this out? I know machines are getting more power efficient,
compact, faster, smarter, but how much better are we in energy efficiency??? 
Thanks for your time.

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