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Comment by markb139

7 hours ago

My best is 980W - for 1 second

That's solid. If my memory is correct, and my teachers were correct (both of these are suspect) back in high school, a human should be able to momentarily exert about 1 horsepower at maximum effort. We did an experiment on how much power we could output at maximum effort. We tested it by sprinting up some number of flights of stairs, and timing it. As I recall we did conclude that in round numbers the hypothesis was correct.

But that was 35 years ago and it was a high school physics experiment meant to be entertaining more than precise.