Rooney's energy could produce 16 cuppas

The energy generated by British soccer dynamo Wayne Rooney as he sprints around the pitch during a match is enough to boil water for 16 cups of tea, according to research published.

David James of Sheffield Hallam University's Centre for Sports Exercise Sciences calculated the 21-year-old Manchester United and England striker produced 6,700 kiloJoules of energy, equivalent to 1.86 kilowatt/hours of electricity.

This, he said, was also enough to light an average house for 90 minutes - the length of an average match - or run a standard television for six and a half hours.

The research for energy utility E.ON UK is part of a program to try to raise awareness in schools of energy usage in the face of the global warming crisis caused by burning fossil fuels for power and transport.

©AAP 2006

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