More watts than a blue whale

Jonah Lehrer is a contributing editor at Wired and an author of several books. I don’t know much about him, but he is keynote speaker at a conference I am considering attending, so I started poking around. I found this fascinating article of his in the New York Times, A Physicist Solves the City. It is hard to summarize concisely, but this sentence got my attention and might interest you in reading it: “And what you find is that we have created a lifestyle where we need more watts than a blue whale.”