Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 149, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 June 1913 — HUMAN ENERGY IN KILOWATTS [ARTICLE]

HUMAN ENERGY IN KILOWATTS

Man Really of Much Commercial Value if He Could Put It on a Cash Basis. One does not fancy the human body as an electric dynamo, but if the heat and muscular, energy expended by an average man of sedantary habits were converted into electrical units he would find himself possessed of quite a valuable asset. It is proved that a man uses up about two and one-half kilowatt hours of electrical energy in a working day. Approximately one-half eaf this is used .to keep the temperature of the body constant, while the other half is expended in muscular energy. This amount of electricity may not seem great, but when one considers the things that can be doite when it is efljciently applied, the power of the human body Is more clearly seen. , Two and one-half kilowatt hours of electrical energy is sufficient to maintain four 25-watt tungßten lamps or 20 oandleflower each for 25 hours or heat an electric flatiron for Blx hours, run a sewing machine motor for 100 hours, beat an electric toaster for two hours, an electric curling iron for 10 hours, run a large fan for 32 hours, or warm a chflng dish for six hours.— Popular Mechanics. ,