那些让你大吃一惊的能量真相 Amazing Energy Facts to Blow Your Mind

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Energy is pretty amazing! So amazing that as a species we use around 15 terawatts at any given moment!

That's equivalent to 15 trillion watts.

Consider this average light bulb which consumes roughly 100 watts.

One single terawatt could power 10 billion of them at the same time.

Of the world's energy, the US consumes about 25 %, while Google alone accounts for roughly 0.013%.

This is enough energy to continuously power 200,000 homes.

Food also contains energy, which is measured in calories or joules.

1 Food Calorie is equal to roughly 4200 Joules of energy.

So how long would you have to plug yourself into a wall to get a day worth of food energy?

If we take a standard daily diet for a male of around 2500 Food Calories, we find that our bodies need around 10,000,000 Joules of energy each day.

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