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> " One barrel of oil has the same amount of energy of up to 25,000 hours of hard human labor, which is 12.5 years of work. At $20 per hour, this is $500,000 of
by acchow 5y ago
> " One barrel of oil has the same amount of energy of up to 25,000 hours of hard human labor, which is 12.5 years of work. At $20 per hour, this is $500,000 of labor per barrel "
Why use humans for physical power output? Humans invented watermills millenia ago.
- zasdffaa 5y agoI struggle to understand your thinking. The point is to put energy measures in terms that are intuitively understandable by people, and the most comprehensibly to people is human-power. Perhaps when Ikea produce a line of watermills we can revisit your rather odd question.