Thursday, 14 April 2016

thermodynamics - Humans have an average energy budget of 100 Watts, but the power radiated from the body is 1000 Watts?


On average a human consumes around 2000 kilocalories per day. This converts to roughly 2000000 calories / 86400 seconds or around 100 joules / second giving roughly 100 watts.


But if you use human's body temperature of 310 Kelvin, the Stefan-Boltzmann law P=eσAT4

says the power radiated by a human with a surface area of 2m2 and emissitivity 1 is 1000 watts.



What's wrong here?




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