1 Juan = 1HP = 746 Watts = 0.75 KwH
1 Rodolfo Sanchez= 1.60 Meters
It takes 2.5 Juans to traverse 1 Rodolfo Sanchez.
For better comprehension, here is a picture of 1 Juan and 1 Rodolfo Sanchez for scale.
In one weak second, you devour a whole 6-pack of Snickers. About how many hours could you have operated an LED lamp with the energy you consumed at that moment?
100g of snickers contain 2014 kJ
1 bar of snickers is about 50g
the energy consumption of an average LED lamp is about 60 Wh per hour.
(1 Wh = 3600 Ws (Wattsekunde) = 3600 Joule = 3,6 Kilojoule (kJ).
If you drink one whole bottle of Absolut Vodka (0.7l), how long do you think it takes the body to decompose the alcohol when doing sports (running) and does it speed up the process?
For reference:
Normal bottle size = 0.7l
Man degrades 0.15 promille/h
Woman degrades 0.13 promille/h
Here you can calculate how long it would take you to decompose the alcohol
--> This result is without doing sports
Important!
Do not forget to adjust the number of liters to 0.7l
Jennifer and Tamara
Sources:
[1] Alkoholabbau
[2] Promillerechner
[3] Lässt sich mit Bewegung Alkohol schneller abbauen?
Naomi and I wanted to find out how long you need to train on a crosstrainer to produce enough energy to bake a Pizza.
We've found out that a human beeing is able to produce 80 Watt hours, if he trains one hour on the crosstrainer.
To bake a Pizza for 15 minutes the oven needs 900 Watt. So we calculated the number of hours needed to
produce 900 Watt on a crosstrainer. The result is ?
If you would buy the energy you would have to spend only 30 cents.
At home we heat with a geothermal probe. This type of heating is very new and extremely environmentally friendly. You also need less energy for this type of heating.
Here are a few more facts:
Low heating costs
A heat pump consumes 3x less energy than an oil heating system and basically has the lowest operating costs compared to other heating systems.
Without CO2 emissions
The heat pump draws heat from the environment and releases it within your own four walls. 100% sustainable, 0% CO2 emissions.
100% Independent
No more need for heating oil or the chimney sweep. A heat pump in combination with solar power is 100% independent of external resources.
Low maintenance & durable
Heat pumps require hardly any maintenance and have an average service life of 20 years.
When we moved into my house we changed the heat source from oil heating to geothermal heating. We use geothermal probes in combination with heat pumps to heat our single family home. When they build the new heat source they had to go to dephts of 250 meters.
This energy we do not just use to warm our house we also use it to heat our water. My mum wanted this type of heating, because it is extremely environmentally friendly and you also need less energy for this type of heating.
The energy potential is enormous: 99% of the earth is warmer than 1000 °C. And geothermal energy also has many advantages in terms of environmental friendliness: no burning of fossil fuels and thus no harmful emissions.
Our heating source is the geothermal heat pump. Geothermal heat pumps, sometimes referred to as GeoExchange, earth-coupled, ground-source, or water-source heat pumps, have been in use since the late 1940s. They use the constant temperature of the earth as the exchange medium instead of the outside air temperature.
As with any heat pump, geothermal and water-source heat pumps are able to heat, cool, and, if so equipped, supply the house with hot water. Some models of geothermal systems are available with two-speed compressors and variable fans for more comfort and energy savings. Relative to air-source heat pumps, they are quieter, last longer, need little maintenance, and do not depend on the temperature of the outside air.
My father told me, that for our house they drilled down 102 meters in the ground, which is very impressing.
Livia
Sadly, our heating source is very energy-consuming and not sustainable, as we are heating with oil. Ever so popular and cheap, oil heating has been around since the second world war. However, it's a fossil fuel and therefore not renewable. On top of that, the process of creating heating oil creates tons of CO2 with all the drilling and refining. It's an environmental mess.
I was not able to get access to the heater itself, but I was able to photograph the control unit. I am sorry for the image quality, but it's extremely moisty in there.
Lukas Wyss
Run-of-river power plants are built on rivers and use the energy of water flowing down a gradient. In most cases, this is only a few meters, but since several hundred tons of water can flow down per second, run-of-river power stations can have a large capacity of several megawatts (MW). The water flow spins turbines, which converts kinetic rotational energy to electrical energy.1
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Definition:
An oil is any non-polar chemical substance that is a viscous liquid at room temperature and is both hydrophobic (does not mix with water, literally "water-shy") and lipophilic (mixes with other oils, literally "fat-loving").
Oils have a high carbon and hydrogen content and are usually flammable and surface active. Most oils are unsaturated lipids that are liquid at room temperature.
Use:
The consumption of oil is still rising. In 2017, it was almost 100 million barrels (159 litres) per day worldwide. For years, road transport has accounted for the largest share of consumption: worldwide, it was 42 percent in 2014, in the EU consumption is even slightly higher. Air transport and maritime shipping also account for more than ten percent. Crude oil is playing an ever smaller role in heating buildings; this is being replaced by electricity or other energy options.
Consume of oil:
Oil has historically been the world's most used energy source. The US has been the biggest oil consumer for the past two decades followed by China, which has been consuming increasingly more oil, especially gasoline. Oil is particularly useful as a fuel because of its high energy density.
Crude oil is processed at petroleum refineries to make many different products, such as motor gasoline, distillate fuel oil, hydrocarbon gas liquids, and jet fuel. More than two-thirds of finished petroleum products consumed in the United States are used in the transportation sector. 33
Wind is the result of the sun's uneven heating of the atmosphere.
Warm air expands and rises, and cool air contracts and sinks.
This movement of the air is called Wind. [1]
Wind turbine [2]
A wind turbine with a rotor blowing wind into energy. The wind causes the rotor to rotate - the "rotational energy" is then converted into electricity with the help of a generator, similar to a bicycle dynamo. From there, the electrical energy goes into the power grid. The height of the wind turbine is very important. The taller the turbine, the more evenly the wind blows and the more electricity can be generated. More...