How many batteries would it take to power a human?

Added: 2026-05-25

[00:00:00]How many batteries would it take to power a human for an hour? Now, a normal AA battery like this has about 2.9 W hours worth of energy. That's enough energy to keep a worker ant going for nearly 2 years. For a buzzing bee, which is just flying around and has to fight against gravity, it can last about 4 days. For a mouse, you're down to just 14 hours. If you go up to a dock, you're already down to just 5 and 1/2 minutes.

[00:00:27]If you go all the way to the biggest animal on the planet, a blue whale, this thing will keep it going for half a second. So, what about a human? Well, the average human consumes about 86 calories per hour while at rest, which you probably are if you're watching this on your phone. This would be enough to keep you going for about 2 minutes. So, you would need 30 of these if you wanted to keep a human running for about an hour. Now, that is a lot to carry around, but fortunately, you don't have to. If you ever do need that much energy, you could just grab one of these instead. It's an Ankor Prime power bank, and it's got the same amount of energy packed in there, but in a body that's 20% smaller than other power banks would be, and that's because it uses high-end LCO cells, like you would see in flagship phones nowadays. Those cells also have lower internal resistance than traditional NCM cells, which means it can do rapid recharging up to 250 W, which is absolutely insane. or 300 watts in total from all these ports. But the very best thing about this to me is that if you press this button, it will tell you how much charge is left and it will even tell you how fast it's charging all your different devices. So to get your very own Anker Prime power bank, click the link in the description.