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The figure I've seen is 20%. If you burn about 2000 calories a day that works out at about 97 watts on average. 20% of that is about 19 watts. Bit more detail here:

http://heliosphan.org/bodyfatenergy.html



Which is still insanely low if you think about it's capabilities compared to the i7 sitting next to my legs, eating 100+ W right now.


Despite all of the progress in integrated circuits, the best we have is still nowhere near theoretical limits for computation per unit energy or unit space.




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