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Cake day: December 15th, 2023

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  • I tried to sanity-test the math here running the same calculations on a 700 kg horse, of which around 50% mass is muscle.

    700 kg x 50% = 350 kg

    Low:

    350 kg x 100 W/kg = 35,000 W

    35,000 W / 746 ≈ 47 hp

    High:

    350 kg x 200 W/kg = 70,000 W

    70,000 W / 746 ≈ 94 hp

    Despite what the term “horsepower” would seem to suggest, a horse can actually output more than one horsepower. Estimates put peak output of a horse around 12-15 hp. By those numbers, even the low end estimate above is around 3-4x too high. We’re gonna need more dogs.