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It would be interesting (if the data was available) to see the energy consumption in Europe at that time: windmills, horses drawing carts, cooking fires, etc.
You forgot the various forms of slavery
Aren’t those metrics tied more to economic output than anything that could be converted to KWh?
Same as the others mentioned, human energy can perfectly be converted to (K)Wh.
They measure the output in athletes.
It would be useful to see electricity consumption by source. A breakdown by hydro, fossil fuels, nuclear…etc would be more useful.
i dunno. with all those carpets and tapestries, there must have been some static sparks somewhere!
This is fake. I’ve seen maps from that time, and they looked a lot different than this one.
Western Sahara with the rare reporting in.
I think it really depends on how much eel they were eating.
Rabbit hole time.
So there actually was some electrical research being conducted in 1705, but it was all static electricity. It could be argued that there was a non-zero amount generated and consumed, but it’s really, really small. ChatGPT threw out a value of “20 milliwatts” for this, citing that it was “about the power of a dim LED”.
What about China?
This reminds me of the classic. What did communists use before candles?
A: Injection molded silicone
