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Energy Slave:
“Energy slaves are determined as follows: In an eight-hour day, one man can do approximately 150,000 foot-pounds of work (the energy required to lift one pound one foot vertically). Consumption of mineral and water energy in 1950 is estimated at 80-1/6 quintillion foot-pounds. Man’s efficiency converts only a rough four percent of these into work, or about 3-1/5 quintillion foot-pounds. Dividing this by 250 work days’ (one year) energy output of one man (375 million foot-pounds), the result is 854 billion man-year equivalents of work done by machines and structures. These equivalents are called energy slaves.”
