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Title: A lot of trouble for just 1 extra horsepower
Post by: SmithSwede on September 04, 2021, 05:16:27 PM
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Title: Re: A lot of trouble for just 1 extra horsepower
Post by: chuck peterson on September 05, 2021, 04:29:50 AM
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Title: Re: A lot of trouble for just 1 extra horsepower
Post by: yogidozer on September 05, 2021, 05:47:46 AM
Nice horse.
bike? POS
Title: Re: A lot of trouble for just 1 extra horsepower
Post by: SmithSwede on September 05, 2021, 09:56:11 AM
Dusty, I’ve looked into that.  James Watt intended horsepower to be the amount of work a horse could do continuously, not as a matter or brief or peak power.  A horse can produce about 15 horsepower for brief periods.   

Humans are good for about 1.2 horsepower peak and 0.1 horsepower indefinitely.   

Watt was too modest to call those units Watts, but he’d dead now and so we now say 1 horsepower is 745 watts. 

Of course, what most people really want to know is how horsepower relates to the power output of ducks.  It turns out that you need about 42 ducks to create 1 horsepower.   Here’s a very helpful horse-to-duck horsepower calculator (German).

https://feinmechanik-rosenheim.de/horsepower-to-duckpower-calculator/
Title: Re: A lot of trouble for just 1 extra horsepower
Post by: yogidozer on September 05, 2021, 04:49:37 PM
Quote from: SoCV on September 05, 2021, 04:02:34 PM
Yeah , about those ducks , how many would it take to lift a 200 lb man 1 ft per second for a fortnight in October ?

 TS
Planning a trip Dusty?  :popcorn:
Title: Re: A lot of trouble for just 1 extra horsepower
Post by: SmithSwede on September 05, 2021, 08:43:30 PM
Quote from: SoCV on September 05, 2021, 04:02:34 PM
Yeah , about those ducks , how many would it take to lift a 200 lb man 1 ft per second for a fortnight in October ?

 TS

The answer is 15.2 ducks.  Dusty, that’s actually a mean thing to do to an Aspergery fellow.   You knew if asked I would be forced to calculate that.  :embarrassed: