On Fri, 2011-04-15 at 13:36 -0400, Olin Lathrop wrote:
> 'William Chops" Westfield ' <westfw@mac.com wrote:
> > A human is supposed to be "about 100W" at normal (in)activity levels.
>=20
> I thought it was more like 30W.  I remember seeing various human activiti=
es
> rated in terms of Kcal/hour.  Just sitting around was rated at 25 Kcal/h,
> which is about 30W.

WAY off. Try: http://www.bmi-calculator.net/bmr-calculator/

For a 5'8" 40 year old male that weighs 120lbs (VERY light for that
height) the base rate is 1405kcal/day=3D58kcal/hr.

For a more "typical" North American you gotta increase the weight, say
to 170lbs, and you get 1716kcal/day.

For a short light woman (5'2", 100lbs, 40years old) you still get
1193kcal/day.

Google is your friend Olin, might try using it before wasting the lists
time.

TTYL

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