Geoffrey West Quotes
A human being at rest runs on 90 watts. That's how much power you need just to lie down. And if you're a hunter-gatherer and you live in the Amazon, you'll need about 250 watts. That's how much energy it takes to run about and find food.
Citations
West, Geoffrey. Qtd. in Jonah Lehrer, "A Physicist Turns to the City." The New York Times Magazine, The New York Times Company, 17 Dec. 2010.
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Geoffrey Brian West is a British theoretical physicist and former president and distinguished professor of the Santa Fe Institute. He is one of the leading scientists working on a scientific model of cities. Among other things, his work states that with the doubling of a city's size, salaries per capita will generally increase by 15%.