Well this has been an amazing response! OmCheeto is right of course - it scares me what all your minds might be capable of! Only, of course, if you could all agree on a method...
This has been amazingly helpful anyway, whether we take acceleration into account or not it seems that under 3...
I'm not a maths person, so bear with me, but I'm trying to prove that with 3.5kW you could lift the average american male (89kg) to a height (take just as displacement) of 3 storeys (about 9.14 meters) in under 3 seconds.
Is somebody able to calculate this for me?
Thanks!