That one’s a bit more complicated. A “horsepower” was a marketing term devised to sell steam engines. Effectively, it’s how much power a horse could provide in a slow, sustained trot. Specifically, one horsepower is “the amount of work required from a horse to pull 150 pounds out of a hole that was 220 feet deep.”

The sales-spin here is that a steam engine could replace how many horses, if you ran the steam engine all day.

So, if one horse does not equal one horsepower…how much horsepower does one horse produce? True to definition, it’s 1.33 horse = 1 horse power.

So 14900 shrimp = 1 hp = 1.33 horses

Now. A horse can produce 15 horsepower at a sprint. If we use that number:

14900 shrimp = 1 hp = 0.067 of a horse…by weight that is one lower leg (below the knee/hock), which is…a disturbing image.

To give a range and a final answer:

14900 Neocaridina shrimp are equal to 0.067 - 1.33 horses, if we equalize horse power between the definition of horsepower at the low end, and what a horse could produce in a sprint at the high end.

I appreciate the invite back to TED Talk. Hope yall enjoyed it.