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Podcast interview about Buckminster Fuller [62 min]

🕑 Added 2019-08-08 23:27:55 +0000 UTC

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Energytheory

A citation from his work: An “energy slave” is determined as follows: In addition to the energy spent from his metabolic income in “working” his own body, one man in one 8 hour day can do approximately 150,000 foot pounds of work. A foot pound of work equals the itmount of energy required to lift one pound one foot vertically. ‘this additional work might be called net advantage-in dealing with environment. The “net advantage” potentially to be gained by each human each year, working 8 hours each of 250 days per year, is 37 1/2 million foot pounds." Source: http://challenge.bfi.org/sites/challenge.bfi.org/files/pdf_files/pdf%20files/wdsd_phase1_doc1.pdf (Page 29 in the Original document, page 50 in the pdf file), He states that one man works in 8 hours the amount of 150.000 foot pound. But that is - I think - wrong with a factor of ten. It should be 1.500.000 foot pound. A recalculation: 150.000 foot pound is the expression of ONLY 56 watt hours work - for the total 8 hours, which means it is only a physical work of only 7 watt each hour. 7 Watt is the energy a small light bulb of a bicycle consumes. That is far too low as the average working power of an average worker. My calculation is, that a normal human can do physical work of 75 Watt hours in an hour, which is 600 Watt hours a day.