Comment by beached_whale
5 hours ago
1hp/750W or so sustained is insane power for all but a few and that is still for relatively short time periods.
5 hours ago
1hp/750W or so sustained is insane power for all but a few and that is still for relatively short time periods.
1HP sustained is not insane for a horse. A human OTOH is a very different matter.
1HP is actually ~5 horses. There was a test trying to measure it.
https://youtu.be/7qxTKtlvaVE
Other way around, a horse does more like 5-15hp
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One horse power is the rate a horse can sustain while working hard all day long.
They don't make them like they used to