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I like how neat things are when people think them all the way through. There’s a thing called basal metabolic rate, which is the rate at which we burn calories when we’re just lying around all day. A 35-year-old, 200-pound man who jogs for a half hour can look forward to burning through a cool 381 calories. But wait, to think the whole thing through, that same man has a basal metabolic rate of 1985.3. If that guy’s BMR holds steady all day, then each hour he burns about 83 calories an hour just being alive. So then he actually netted 298 calories burned from that jog.
You could, in theory, power your home with Guinea Pigs
by Marshall Brain | September 9, 2010
In the following article/video, we learn that it is possible to power a home with Guinea Pigs:
How do they do it? Here are the steps…
Invention – hydrocarbon fuels produced directly from solar energy
by Marshall Brain | August 16, 2010
The big problem with a solar panel is that it only produces power part of the time. As we discussed in How Wind Power Doesn’t Work, the intermittent nature of solar (and wind) energy doesn’t work so well on the grid. The power company still has to maintain backup power plants to replace all the solar power that is lost on days when the sun doesn’t shine.
One thing that would help solar/wind is an ability to efficiently store electricity and release it when needed…
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