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SYSTEMIC STUFF ( + occasional nonsense ) IN THE NEWS . . . . DECONSTRUCTED FOR POSSIBLE MUTUAL BENEFIT
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![]() Global human warmthBeing warm blooded, an average human being produces somewhere around 200 Watts of power, continuously, in the form of heat. ( The figure is used as a rule-of-thumb by air conditioning engineers when calculating how much cooling will be required in a closed space for a given number of people – say, a theatre ) The current world population is reckoned at around 6.5 Billion. So, at all times, the heat generated would run at about 1.3 Trillion Watts ( i.e. 1,300,000 MegaWatts ) Roughly equivalent to 1,300 average-sized power stations - running 24/7. Hardly an insignificant number ? Then there are all the other warm-blooded animals ( including birds ) on the planet – outnumbering us by a few orders of magnitude – all contributing heat to the environment, like us, by ‘burning’ oxygen. Have these figures been factored into any of the global-warming computer models ? Is our math(s) wrong ? Really Magazine has no idea.
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