What is "kilocalorie"

Usage examples of "kilocalorie".

The tribal Tsembaga people of the highlands in New Guinea raise sweet potatoes at an expenditure of approximately one kilocalorie of energy for each 16 kilocalories of food produced.

Studies of the industrial system indicate that approximately 20 kilocalories of energy are required to produce one kilocalorie of food.

In particular, the Iraqi government provided food rations to the public that up until 1996 provided only about 1,300 kilocalories per day.

But a person who eats 2,000 kilocalories of steak a day obviously has to pay more than a person eating the same amount of bread.

A normal human of average size needs 1800 kilocalories of energy every day just to lie in bed.

For example, to raise peanuts in Florida required 1,000 kilocalories of energy for each pound of peanut protein grown while it cost 10,000 kilocalories of energy to gain a pound of egg protein in the factory egg raising system of the U.

Altogether it is estimated that the earth is losing some 20 to 40 billion kilocalories of rotational energy every minute.

John would ask questions, and plug Pauline in to record the screens and tape the discussions, and they would go through the equations and jab their fingers at the flow charts, and then stop for coffee and perhaps take it up to the crest, to pace the length of the greenhouse arguing vehemently about the human value in kilocalories of plumbing, opera, simulation programming and the like.

An economy can be measured in terawatts or kilocalories, like John used to say.

Experimental studies in which botanists have collected seeds from such natural stands of wild cereals, much as hunter-gatherers must have been doing over 10,000 years ago, show that annual harvests of up to nearly a ton of seeds per hectare can be obtained, yielding 50 kilocalories of food energy for only one kilocalorie of work expended.