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Pedal Power - Power From the People
Posted by Norski • 7/18/08 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
Topics: electricity, energy, environment, invention, power
"Pedaling for Power - Exercise Equipment as Electrical Generators" ( apatheticlemming.blogspot.com/2008/07/pedaling-for-power-exercise-equipment... )
At about one kilowatt every 10 hours, it'd take a lot of exercise bikes to keep Tokyo lit up, but this sounds like a good idea anyway.
Anyone here with the information and math? How many bikes would it take to keep Hong Kong running?
Seriously - this sounds like a good idea for supplemental power - and a way of keeping power bills down (a little).
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what with the amount of exercise gyms around you would think they could hook the equipment upto to some sort of storage to be used for the lights etc-
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What crkian and aningeniousname said.
crkian, what interested me was that at least one of these systems is hooked directly into the local grid - the power is added in real time.
I'm not sure that you'll find that in either of the articles - this sort of thing has been popping up in quite a few places.
The advantage of adding power in real time is that (my opinion) a system like that takes less maintenance and monitoring by people - and so is more likely to be used. -
You would think that at least the gyms would generate their own power this way, they could probably make a bit of money selling the excess power to the local grid.
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