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Title: Would you swap food for USB charging?
Post by: thedoc on 28/07/2015 19:27:13

If a human could be fed with energy via USB ports rather than food (like the synths in Channel Four's 'Humans) how long would it take to fully charge an average human with, say, 2000 calories of energy?
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Title: Re: Would you swap food for USB charging?
Post by: alancalverd on 29/07/2015 12:45:47

2000 Calories (capital C = kilocalories) is about 10 megajoules.

If you USB port delivers 5 volts then it will take 2,000,000 ampere-seconds to deliver 10 MJ. A 10 amp USB charger will thus require 200,000 seconds or 56 hours to recharge a human.

However most of the 2000 Calories you eat each day, is used to keep your body at its working temperature. If you were replaced by an entirely electrical system to do the same amount of useful work, you could be recharged in 2 or 3 hours.

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Post by: BobonToast on 29/07/2015 14:12:46

I think that should be 8 million divided by 15 (not 4200)?