{"id":800,"date":"2011-11-29T19:03:31","date_gmt":"2011-11-29T19:03:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/amc\/?p=800"},"modified":"2011-11-29T19:03:43","modified_gmt":"2011-11-29T19:03:43","slug":"mpg-of-a-human","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/amc\/mpg-of-a-human\/","title":{"rendered":"MPG of a Human"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: right\">&#8211; by Tom Murphy<br \/>\n<a title=\"MPG\" href=\"http:\/\/physics.ucsd.edu\/do-the-math\/2011\/11\/mpg-of-a-human\/\" target=\"_blank\">Do The Math<\/a><\/p>\n<p>On Do the Math, three previous posts have focused on transportation efficiency of<a title=\"Do the Math: 100 MPG on Gasoline\" href=\"http:\/\/physics.ucsd.edu\/do-the-math\/2011\/07\/100-mpg-on-gasoline\/\"> gasoline cars<\/a>,<a title=\"Do the Math: MPG for Electric Cars\" href=\"http:\/\/physics.ucsd.edu\/do-the-math\/2011\/08\/mpg-for-electric-cars\/\"> electric cars<\/a>, and on the practicalities of <a title=\"Do the Math: A Solar-Powered Car\" href=\"http:\/\/physics.ucsd.edu\/do-the-math\/2011\/11\/a-solar-powered-car\/\">solar-powered cars<\/a>.  What about personal-powered transport\u2014namely, walking and biking? After  stuffing myself over Thanksgiving, I am curious to know how potent  human fuel can be. How many miles per gallon do we get as our own  engines of transportation?<\/p>\n<p>Okay, the \u201cmiles\u201d part is straightforward. And we can handle the  \u201cper.\u201d But what\u2019s up with the gallon? A gallon of what? Here we have all  kinds of options, as humans are flex-fuel machines. But food energy is  not <em>much<\/em> different from fossil fuel energy in terms of energy density.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Continued\" href=\"http:\/\/physics.ucsd.edu\/do-the-math\/2011\/11\/mpg-of-a-human\/\" target=\"_blank\">Continued at original site<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8211; by Tom Murphy Do The Math On Do the Math, three previous posts have focused on transportation efficiency of gasoline cars, electric cars, and on the practicalities of solar-powered cars. What about personal-powered transport\u2014namely, walking and biking? After stuffing &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/amc\/mpg-of-a-human\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9322,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6838,6836,6844,111],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-active-transport","category-cycling","category-energy","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/amc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/amc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/amc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/amc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9322"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/amc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/amc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/amc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/amc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/amc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}