scott wrote:
>> Suggests that the entire body consumes about 100W, and the brain 
>> itself uses 20 - 40 W. (So... a pretty significant fraction, 
>> considering that the human body is *not* a data processing device, 
>> primarily.) That's how much energy it *uses*, I wonder how much of 
>> that ends up as heat?
> 
> Well there aren't too many options for "used energy" to be converted to. 
> Maybe some is used to increase the kinetic energy of some blood, but I 
> would say that almost all is converted to heat.

Well, I guess the brain does use *some* of that energy for chemical 
transformations. (It turns raw ingredients into hormones and releases 
them, for example.) But yeah, *most* of it is porbably heat...

FWIW, how much heat does an Intel Core 2 Quad generate?

> I guess the brain also makes even Windows ME look good for uptime 
> records :-)

HAHAHAH! PWN3D! :-D

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