Global human warmth
Being 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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