Random Fact of the Day: Horsepower

[aggienaut]

Random Fact of the Day (which I'd post to the useless_facts community but those filthy bastards closed membership)

   Typical sustainable horsepower of animal in good condition:
Draft horse: .680
Camel: .884
Buffalo: .707
Ox: .612
Mule: .544
Donkey: .272
Man: .100

   For a couple seconds a horse can reach 14.9 horsepower.*

   A healthy person can produce 1.2 HP briefly, and .1 for sustained periods. An athlete can do 2.5 briefly and .3 for several hours.


Source: FAO list of animal outputs by watt, divided by metric definition of horsepower (rounded to 735 W)


   But Europe apparently hates horsepower, and "The use of horsepower in the EU is banned since the implementation of the EU Directive 80/181/EEC on January 1st, 2010." -Wiki.


   I wonder what the horsepower of a bee is.

   And I suppose I could do some math pertaining to the speed and weight of the boat and figure out the horsepower of wind absorbtion by sails on a tallship hmmmm O_o

Comments

[colt-4-5.livejournal.com]

I work in a power plant. Our turbine generators can produce about 500 megawats of electricity, and the turbine itself can push 720,000 HP. Thats a lot of bees! :D

[emo-snal.livejournal.com]

I might have to calculate "beepower" at some point, because I think it would be awesome to talk about how many bees it would take to power a lawnmower or car or such.

[beki.livejournal.com]

The draft horse can't make it to one horsepower? Somehow, that seems wrong...

You should calculate what bee power would be. It's not banned by the EU. ;)

[emo-snal.livejournal.com]

Yeah isn't that silly?

And one of these days I just might. (: I tihnk it would be a cute little fact.

[geordielass.livejournal.com]

interesting.....