It would have to be a pretty big relay team. The recovery time for 2 minutes of all-out power exercise is pretty long.
Look at the size of this guy’s thighs. He’s a freak of nature (in the positive sense of the term) who trains for this specific type of exercise and had to stop after 2 minutes because he was in so much pain. I can’t imagine he’d be ready for another all-out run in less than a couple hours, and after two in a day, probably would need a day’s rest.
That’s fair. But that’s still a lot of work for so little work, if that makes sense. Which is kind of what the demonstration showed.
A man at the peak of human athletic capability could barely put in enough energy on his own to slightly toast a piece of bread. Of course 6 people could put in one sixth of the effort, but that’s six people still working such a small output.
That’s 1440 slices of toast per day. Using random numbers from google, that’s 110k Calories worth of plain white bread. Assuming 6 people putting in the work, that’s a bit over 18k per cyclist for 24 hours cycled, who each would require about 12k Calories for the work put in.
However, this is just to toast the bread, not to make the bread. I’m being a little dumb and taking this hypothetical a bit too far.
Kilowatt-hours, not kilowatts. And it was 0.021.
He was basically going full blast for just under two minutes, and generated 0.021 kWh.
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It would have to be a pretty big relay team. The recovery time for 2 minutes of all-out power exercise is pretty long.
Look at the size of this guy’s thighs. He’s a freak of nature (in the positive sense of the term) who trains for this specific type of exercise and had to stop after 2 minutes because he was in so much pain. I can’t imagine he’d be ready for another all-out run in less than a couple hours, and after two in a day, probably would need a day’s rest.
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That’s fair. But that’s still a lot of work for so little work, if that makes sense. Which is kind of what the demonstration showed.
A man at the peak of human athletic capability could barely put in enough energy on his own to slightly toast a piece of bread. Of course 6 people could put in one sixth of the effort, but that’s six people still working such a small output.
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A horse on a suitably adapted “bicycle” could easily travel 60+ miles:
A cyclist without their bicycle would be closer to 20-30.
That’s 1440 slices of toast per day. Using random numbers from google, that’s 110k Calories worth of plain white bread. Assuming 6 people putting in the work, that’s a bit over 18k per cyclist for 24 hours cycled, who each would require about 12k Calories for the work put in.
However, this is just to toast the bread, not to make the bread. I’m being a little dumb and taking this hypothetical a bit too far.