You say it’s not feasible for a household but it sounds pretty brilliant if gyms converted some of the effort people exert towards reducing their footprint and overhead it could be quite useful.
"the Rick's must be crazy". Have ever seen how much energy inmates have? Exercise is therapy especially in that environment. Arizona has done it with inmates who want to watch tv. The thing is that the incentive and greed are at odds with each other. It would destroy markets and the diplomacies that are bought and sold etc etc etc . In short.... Be safe , stay alive and stuff
even "it's not feasible for a household" isnt true - maybe an american household but where i live 900kwh is ridiculous, the sort of amount i'd expect for a 2-3 bedroom semi detached house with all-electric heating and cold winters. you could pretty much divide that figure by 10 for a reasonable figure in most of the rest of the world. i wouldnt want to rely on bike-only but i live in a fairly cloudy and northern part of the planet so we dont get a whole lot of sun, it actually makes sense for me to put resources towards generating my electricity from pedal power alongside a small solar array (although if i had the money and space i would obviously prefer to just overpanel and have a massive setup just from the solar, lol). in short i guess what im saying is i wish there were more projects out there where people were working on this and publishing what they'd found because i think its really cool. i realise this comment probably just reads as bashing on american power consumption habits but yeah too bad i guess, bicycle generators are cool though is what i want to say
I still like the idea of cycling to generate some electricity. For a start, it keeps you fit. I'd happily cycle an hour or two every day to generate some electricity, while burning off belly fat.
Especially if you can save up the energy. You will eventually make enough power power your home for a month if you just keep going regardless of how much time it takes. And like you said, you’re getting fit. 2 birds 1 stone.
I assume 900 is the highest possible amount because that is a lot. My family of 12 and I live in one house. Our average monthly electric bill stated we use 400 kwh per month.
@@ratfood3875 Depending on location, we experience large temperature ranges. Here in the middle of the US in Kansas, it's still 81F (27C) at about 2:30 in the morning. My state's record high is 121F and our record low is -40F.
To be fair, that´s northern USA where winters are very cold so heating is probably most of that energy. And the part about energy consumption killing the planet.. There´s propaganda and there´s facts. One fact is, that the world has *greened* thanks to human induced increase in CO2 in atmosphere www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2016/carbon-dioxide-fertilization-greening-earth
Patrick M yet they left out all the possible energy efficiency improvements and fail to mention that even offsetting some of the coal sourced electricity would be great, particularly when someone is working out anyway and the energy would otherwise go to waste. Way to brush it off using #sience instead of finding ways to harness the energy of all the many people that work out every day. Hmmm
What if you used a pulley system and gearing to increase your output? Not to say you could power a home, but you must be able to double that amount at least.
@@visualartsmr.brandon2060 double? I am completely ignorant but to me.. it seems like you could easily connect 100 of these cute little generators they have on the video, and a human could easily keep it going. So you would produce 100x energy?? I don't know if that is right. And maybe you still can't power a house but it would be something rather than nothing.
It would take 50 cyclists, but only with the technology you used in the video. Wind power turbine can make 50kw easy, so why not a cyclist. If you used a system with 15 gears and a flywheel the size of a car, a generator the size of a washing machine, and a battery the size of a fridge-freezer, it would be the same as a wind generator and would power your house no problem. However, it would take quite a while to get the machine up to top speed, and a lot of human hours to keep it going.
Because the cyclist can't push the pedals hard enough? How big of a wind turbine are you talking? Can you imagine trying to make it spin by hand (or foot)?
mechanical advantage can be used to get you more torque per unit distance covered, or more distance per unit torque delivered (for a bike it's the latter i think) - it's not some free energy hack. your max human power output will always be the limit that you can get closer to depending on how well you can beat the inefficiencies of all the mechanical parts of the system and such. but you can only get closer to that limit, not exceed it.
Alright, what if I only wanted to power a small LED for my tent and charge my tablet to watch some videos? A bike powered generator doesn't sound terribly unreasonable if you aren't charging a whole home.
Again, here’s the proof that a lot of North Americans think big. Everything has to be "bigger than life" and of course also the use of energy. In the video Adam says that a standard house uses about 900 kWh/month! That’s 4-5 times a household (2 persons in a 100m2 apartment in Barcelona) uses here (and we should use less). The world will continue having a big problem while people think too big consuming.
First of all, focus on lowering the energy consumption. 901 kWh per month, just wow! I am Danish and I use 1200 kWh per year (2 ppl, 1 apartment (so no waterheater)), and an average Danish household (with 2 adults, 2 children (no aircon)) uses 6300 kWh per year or 525 kWh per month. So that being said, the bike would power a larger percentage of the household power consumption and lower the number of Adams neded to 29-30. This still does not make the power generating bike a favourable solutions, but you will save money without having to bike 8 hours a day.
I live in Romania in a 200square meters(2152 sq feet), and I use less than 300kWh/month. And except few led bulbs I do not try to save to much. If I were to replace all the bulbs for led, go for a solar water heater, and some new more efficient computers(I use them 8hours a day as my job), I would probably save another 100 kWh.
yeah i used to use about 400kwh a month by myself (no fridge) and due to some shit that went on i decided to cut down as much as i can and i managed to bring that to a little over 200kwh.
Yeah something is off 900 kWh per month is electricity of a medium office building. I think they messed up the calculation. It's not like he has lights, air conditioning and microwave all running simultaneously.
Another look at the problem: ua-cam.com/video/S4O5voOCqAQ/v-deo.html. but the beauty of the bicycle is that just one hour on the bike can save an entire month's worth of full time pedaling! You said that an entire month of 8-hour a day pedaling produces about as much energy as a half-gallon of gas. Well, that half-gallon of gas is going to get the average american car 10-12 miles, which is about an hour worth of riding. So by riding a bike for that 10 mile trip instead of driving, you can kick back for the rest of the month, having accomplished your entire month's goal in one hour!
And this is why it's important to have priorities. An analogy: If we just spend 7% of the money we spend on petrol on planting trees instead, you would drive CO² neutral. (According to my calculations) One liter of petrol costs around €1.70 in the Netherlands. Combusting petrol emits around 2.4kg of CO² per liter. So per €1.70 that you spend, you emit 2.4kg, which is 1.41kg per euro. A fully grown tree absorbs 20kg of CO² per year. Let's see how expensive it is to use teamtrees to compensate for €1.00 spent on petrol. (teamtrees is a charity event planting trees, one tree per dollar), I'm assuming every tree planted equates to one fully grown tree's year worth of CO², which I admit, is just a guess from me. Spend €1.00 to absorb 20kg of CO², which is €0.05 per kg. For 1.41kg, that would be only €0.07. It just seems to me like a waste of time to use electric cars for environmental reasons, opposed to planting trees. But I'm no expert so maybe I'm missing something here.
@@augustvctjuh8423 I like where your head’s at with trees. Very cool. Now add growing red seaweed supplements commercially to feed the world’s cows to eliminate 80-85% of the methane produced by the beef/dairy industry and were looking at massive changes in our global foot print. Trying to work this out in my head. Red seaweed is in short supply and growing it away from the ocean will require massive ingenuity. But I’m up for the challenge. I know UC Davis is on this and Sunshine Uni in Australia is working on this as well as some shadowy US corps (of course). But I think people love cheese burgers, ice cream & cold glasses of milk. I’m willing to bet on the public & local farmers & ranchers will jump in on this as they are not going to take lightly the “infrastructure” & “reconciliation” bills lying down. 😉
It could add an element of enjoyment to being on an exercise bike which can easily generate enough power to charge a phone or even a laptop. You'd put in more effort and burn more calories if you knew your effort would be charging your devices.
if you were willing to make some big sacrifices on electrical use, like burning solid fuel on a range cooker for heat/cooking/hot water(not good for the air and people's lungs, but at least from a carbon-neutrality perspective it's only putting back in the air what would have rotted from a tree, unlike those pesky fossil fuels which if left to their own devices would have stayed deep underground and not ended up inthe atmosphere (please someone correct me on this if im wrong though, this is all stuff im parroting that ive heard elsewhere but logically it checks out in my book)) , or doing your laundry by hand, installing big windows for light and just sleeping when the sun goes down, using energy-efficient top-loading fridges, or other sorts of lifestyle adjustments, i think it'd be very possible for a fairly fit adult to generate everything they need to live with basic modern creature comforts. might end up spending all your free time at home topping up your batteries though haha
@@alexburnette2526 in summer i go to parks and rivers, in winter just put some clotes on. Trying to live like conforted Kings and Queens is destroing our planet and our sense of what life trully means.
@@alexburnette2526 i reply quick cause yt sended me a notification. I just want to put the theme that is possible and has so much sense for planet and for our selves as human beens to live in a new way. We need to change in order to great our lifes great again, and for that we need to get into the Nature.
Dude even now during COVID-19 I live with a family of 5 and we use about 200kWh per month. Seriously do you actually need air conditioning and heating? What I used to do is just go swimming when it gets to hot. And are people really that lazy to use a heater instead of wearing extra clothes when it gets cold?
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It would be worth doing if you wanted to be healthier anyway. Why do we need so much electricity in the first place? The modern person is addicted to electricity and telling people that you cannot save on energy is the same as saying be useless like everyone else. I would prefer to add a little electric energy to my dwelling than completely relying on something that will kill me anyway.
If as you say 8 hours pedalling gives you 1 kilowatt-hour, and that is only enough to run a table lamp for a day (24 hours? 10 hours?), then your lamp must have a 40-100 watt bulb. A 5-watt LED lamp, good for lighting a whole room, would run for 200 hours; a 3-watt LED would run for 333 hours and 20 minutes, so lighting isn't a problem. Heating and hot water you would need to open a gym and get folk to pay you for the workout. Thought seriously, even raising the temperature of stored (hot) water slightly reduces household bils a bit
Never once asked the question on why do we need all that energy usage i.e. so many lights on, AC, etc. Conservation is key. My 3500 sq foot uses 752 per month.
I agree. I would have liked to see what is possible rather than just a yes/no verdict on a set predefined parameters. I think one could get pretty close to powering a well-constructed tiny home that has a wood burning stove for heat, on demand water heater, etc.
The Sloth im thinking of building a tiny home in a bus, working on some ideas to power it. read my comment, i think i have a way to build my own and i will be using on demand water heater, propane oven and stove, gonna keep house and bus systems seperate so i can charge the house and jump the bus if i have to.
That lamp (2:38) has a power requirement of 120W/60W/40W (if a days usual usage is about 8h/16h/24h) ... really? Lamps of that type used to be powered by heating bulbs of at *max* 60W (typically more 20W). But who would try to power his house with a bike and not use LED bulbs? That's 3W to maximally 6W!
No, but power usage by time (kWh, as was given in the video) increases linear ;). They said 960 Wh/day for a commode lamp, without defining "day" (varies depending on latitude and date in most cases).
No. They didn't give a run time/day, so I made an estimated guess which was 8 hours/day, breaking the power of the lamp down to 120W. But I wanted to give them the benefit of the doubt, so I added the resulting power requirements for the cases of running it for 16 or 24 hours.
This implies that you need 900kw/h to live. This type of energy source is for emergencies (in america and other developed countries). I'm willing to bet that if people realized they have to pedal to power their home, they would be line drying their clothes, and turn their A/C off until its 90 deg inside. This device and idea is very useful in undeveloped countries that have zero electricity. where they would happy with a single LED bulb so they can see at night time in their mud huts.
I see a lot of potential flaws in this argument. And the definition of a house can vary from one country to another. Mechanical efficiency can be improved through sound design to maximise the human exerted effort or work to produce more power.
lovely video, but I would like to point out you need to be active to stay healthy, so although you cannot power an entire modern household with a cyclist, you can replace a portion of it all with human powered tools to save money and be healthy while doing it. For instance, manual washing machines. With direct mechanical transmission, you don't lose any of your imputed energy to the battery. So it is very inefficient to power a television or an oven with a person, but many house hold jobs could stand to be replaced with pedal power.
I agree, whenever I've used a trainer in the off-season to stay in shape, I felt like I was just wasting energy (actually just creating heat). I built a pedal generator and use it to charge my phone and other mobile devices. I also found that wall chargers are very inefficient (20-30% losses) so direct charging with a 12v car charger is a better way to go!
Well, it's not really worth setting up the equipment, if you're using 900 kWh a month and only generating 5 (because you don't exercise 24 hours a day). It does seem like a fun thing to build yourself though. So build it because you want to build it, not because you want to save your electricity bill.
@@thewhitefalcon8539 it's not about powering your whole house, if anything it can be a good mechanism to gain an appreciation of how much energy we use in the first place, but if you can power just a portion of your life and it brings psychological satisfaction, that it worth more than just the KWh saved
Some done here got it: He cant power your house, he might be able to power another very low energy using house. My household with gamer server, PCs, aircon, shower-water, ... usage 530 KWh month (summer), most normal families here in Thailand just under 300 ... But I was looking for this on another way: going on my bike for 4 hours a day (as I did before, train for racing) would it be worth of saving like wind or solar ... got 200 Watt average, 4 hours 800 W a day, ... would save me near 100 Baht a month = nice as also drop my wages for healthy (the bill now would be 2300 Baht, but Solar low it down to 600 Baht/month) depending on the costs (invest) to build it up and an on-grid inverter ... it will take some time to pay it back cycling indoor ... but still nice idea, never know what emergency could happen in future - if all you want is a light in the night ...
How much resistance is there when turning the "generator"? If the resistance is that of an alternator, seems like you could have many attached to the wheel and still pedal the bicycle easily.
Is there a way to make a gear build up to increase the speed of the gear spin (slowing the ratio gradually and be directly embedded as an electric motor to generate volts) and then use a tesla coil to increase the voltage? (And how large the tesla coil need to be?) (I am dumb on this one, not idea how many laws of physics I am missing, but if I am correct that could be awesome right? so, correct me please...)
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rethink the generator part, this one guy in India figured it out. He's giving away 10,000 to people in India and the machine costs about 25,000. one hour a day keeps the electricity on for 24 hrs. There is a way to do it using a heavy flywheel and using proper ratios. My idea is if you figure out the correct ratio, figure out the correct weight of the flywheel to store energy so as to help you pedal ( it would only take the power to climb a hill to get it moving the rest would be maintaining rpms like your on flat land with a heavy loaded bike trailer).
It wouldn't be a matter of tweaking the generator and storage, it would be a matter of saving energy in your house. Leave the air con off, switch all the lights to LEDs, with lower wattage as well, turn them off when you're not in the room. For that matter, only do stuff in daylight. Get the best insulated and smallest fridge you can find. Eat canned or salted food so it doesn't need to be in the fridge. Good luck cooking things, I hope you can make one batch of cooked meal stretch a few days. (You can probably make a solar cooker, but that's cheating)
where can i get that thing you're powering with the bike? i want that so much! also 1kwh per day lamp and it's that dim? holy shit. change get some leds ffs. that could be as bright and only use like 0.1kwh per day
Well through the use of gears, like adding a rugs sprocket on the fron and a tiny one on the back, and adding more generators, shouldn’t you be able to generate more electricity?
I'm interested in the strength of the generator and and efficiency of the overall set up of some real engineering was applied to the setup. I'm thinking a small car alternator connected to larger weighted flywheel and some high ratio pullies
and some electronics to control how much load we wanted to. if you have solar battery system, can dump the energy into that battery using electronics to convert the voltage.
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I liked your bike generator though...looked very smooth and effecient compared to others.....where you get it? Plans? Point me in the right direction, please!
But what about emergency power, like the Texas black out during sub zero temps. Could a person pedal power enough energy to produce comfortable heat in one room (for their family), and maybe also recharge a phone? Forget the fridge, lights, microwave, etc, .
Yes but if you pedalled in a freezing cold house which is very well insulated with the air conditioning disabled then the system would be near 100% efficient. Also great for fitness.
1-From generator to battery, 2-From battery to inverter(connect battery to inverter) 3-From inverter to electric appliances such as hair dryer, refrigerator(yes u can power refrigerator using car battery, but battery will drain in 1-2 hour)
I think this would be different if you incorporated the bicycles pedaling+ added different gear ratio if I'm not mistaken adding the gear ratio would increase the generators rpm increasing the electricity produced
Awesome question and answer. Love the video! Seems like a gym could power its self though. And maybe schools could provide some of their own power via bicycles or other exercise equipment. Perhaps prisons as well. If people are already going to be exercising and using exercise equipment, wouldn't it be possible to capture some of that energy? Would it be worth it to create an infrastructure that could do it?
I knew the answer to this before I watched the video. But can you use this method to keep a couple of computer fans running in a fallout shelter for ventilation? If you have to pedal 8 hours a day for 30 days to create the same energy in 1/2 a gallon of gasoline, that doesn't seem like it could do any useful work at all. In a fallout shelter, you'd want to run LED lights and ventilation fans, though you'd probably be more efficient at using the bicycle to power the vent fans directly. The problem with this is that the buildup of C02 is so quick inside a shelter with maybe 600 cubic feet of air and 3 people, you'd be faced with a difficult task to constantly peddle. to exchange air.
What about using a bike to pump water up into a water tower and using a screw style turbine to generate electricity as the water comes down from the tower? Would that be more efficient?
Dutch investigation bureau Nibud tells me a 1 person household gets up to 1.925 kWh per year. You are talking about 900 kWh per month? Seems U.S. house are power guzzlers. Anyway, it´s also about how much power you need. You can run a dishwasher, or just do the dishes by hand. You could use incandescent bulbs or LED´s. If you are very energy efficient, you can power a house with 2 hours of pedalling.
900 kWh per month??? Wow! I just checked and my annual consumption (single male living in 50m2 in the Netherlands, single glazing windows and really don't pay that much attention to my energy consumption) is at 2500 kWh...
Great video and well done creating it! What if I used different gear ratios off of the generator to multiply my effort on the bike? Would that improve the situation?
I’m looking at converting a stationary bike with a flywheel with increasing gears to gain significant speed to power a wind turbine alternator. My hope is that I can apply this energy to add that last little bit of boost to a small scale power system that is running on solar and wind. Mostly for proof of concept. Seeing the math applied here has me realizing why no one takes this very seriously. I’m mostly considering this as an option to power simple things like a 700W hot plate to cook a meal or boil a pot of water. Simply to say that I did.
Why can't bicycle power supply enough for a house? ① He use dryer, instead of air-dry ② Microwave ③ Air-conditioning (Note: If you live in hot climate or a heat wave happening, you still need air-conditioning. But keep in mind, use it wisely but not use it whenever you feel like.) ④ Heater (Same as above) ⑤ Washing machine (Either washing clothes until its almost full load, or hand-wash small items like towels, underwear, socks while showering.) ⑥ IDK how much he uses lights in daytime when it's sunny and bright outside. But turn off the lights and use sunlight by the windowsill to work and study is a great way to save energy. ⑦ TV If he at least get rid of the dryer, that'll save him a lot of energy. Combining good habit on low-energy living, I don't think it's impossible to live with only human-power electricity. This video is somehow exaggerated.
Ok so I see alot of people using alternators with a bicycle but hear me out how about using gear reduction systems and a actual generator pack off a industrial generator to see if you can get the gear ratio right to run that generator pack at 1800 rpms if we can get that type of set up those packs can generate enough to run 5 houses on 1 pack at any given time so that would make it quite easy to pay a single home with that generator pack
I can be done. Obviously with the power consumption of this specific home, it seems impossible. Bicycle power is not the issue. It's the inefficiency of all the appliances. If the appliances had the efficiency of LED lights, a simple 24,000mah phone charger power bank, could power an entire home. So please don't make it seem like it's impossible.
So your gallon of gasoline may power your extravagant lifestyle (by world standards) now but not for long, Easy oil is gone, now they have to wreck the environment to get oil. Soon even that will be gone and you might need to make do with the amount of energy a house uses in rural Africa where they use bicycle powered generators to power their led lights and charge their cell phones and that's all they need electrical power for. In parts of the third world they use bicycles to directly grind grain to flour and many other tasks which is much more efficient than pedaling to create electricity.
What if you used a pulley system and gearing to increase your output? Not to say you could power a home, but you must be able to double that amount at least.
Eliminate the Air conditioner, put a clothes line up in your back yard (solar clothes dryer) Install a solar water heater and you could *VERY EASILY* power your home with a 6,000 Watt array of photovoltaic panels. The cost to install this array could EASILY be under $10,000 dollars and the amount of area would be 600 square feet or less. With being a little more creative and energy efficient you could *EASILY* power your home with a solar array of half that size ... and the cost could be $5,000 dollars or less.
Using your hands may be a little less consuming. And more rewarding.. Which means you could have two people, on one bike, to get the real speed. Which would raise the kwh to about 2.5 (however, the decrease of the 'go through', with battery, and generator, it gets bumped down a bit.) And further on, with about 4 people (Let's say it's a family) They could raise the gears, and make it easy for the hands to rotate, getting nearly 8 kwh.. Now, you'd be lookin, and sayin "why, how would that work anyways?" Glad you asked! For a higher gear on the bike, it would not only get the wheels well-on with the spinning, but also make it easier to rotate. Thereby producing more energy. I calculate this 2.5/Person.. including the dropdown with the battery, generator, and wires.
You say it’s not feasible for a household but it sounds pretty brilliant if gyms converted some of the effort people exert towards reducing their footprint and overhead it could be quite useful.
Good idea.
"the Rick's must be crazy". Have ever seen how much energy inmates have? Exercise is therapy especially in that environment. Arizona has done it with inmates who want to watch tv. The thing is that the incentive and greed are at odds with each other. It would destroy markets and the diplomacies that are bought and sold etc etc etc . In short.... Be safe , stay alive and stuff
even "it's not feasible for a household" isnt true - maybe an american household but where i live 900kwh is ridiculous, the sort of amount i'd expect for a 2-3 bedroom semi detached house with all-electric heating and cold winters. you could pretty much divide that figure by 10 for a reasonable figure in most of the rest of the world. i wouldnt want to rely on bike-only but i live in a fairly cloudy and northern part of the planet so we dont get a whole lot of sun, it actually makes sense for me to put resources towards generating my electricity from pedal power alongside a small solar array (although if i had the money and space i would obviously prefer to just overpanel and have a massive setup just from the solar, lol). in short i guess what im saying is i wish there were more projects out there where people were working on this and publishing what they'd found because i think its really cool. i realise this comment probably just reads as bashing on american power consumption habits but yeah too bad i guess, bicycle generators are cool though is what i want to say
Wasn't this in a Sci-fi film - Logan's Run or something - where people could earn credits for pedalling
@@elgorrion52 Not sure about that movie, but the "credits for pedaling" system was used in an episode of Black Mirror. S01e02
I still like the idea of cycling to generate some electricity. For a start, it keeps you fit. I'd happily cycle an hour or two every day to generate some electricity, while burning off belly fat.
Especially if you can save up the energy. You will eventually make enough power power your home for a month if you just keep going regardless of how much time it takes. And like you said, you’re getting fit. 2 birds 1 stone.
@@josiahday2187 O look dad we got chicken!
@@josiahday2187 Also, a better generator set up with a flywheel could probably make a lot more energy than the one used in the video.
I assume 900 is the highest possible amount because that is a lot. My family of 12 and I live in one house. Our average monthly electric bill stated we use 400 kwh per month.
You have a team assembled. Now its time to get some bicycles.
Family of 3 and we only use about 100, what the heck are Americans doing?
@@ratfood3875 Depending on location, we experience large temperature ranges. Here in the middle of the US in Kansas, it's still 81F (27C) at about 2:30 in the morning. My state's record high is 121F and our record low is -40F.
The most revealing thing we've learnt in this video is American households use shitloads of energy needlessly.
Exactly! And it kills this planet.
What do you expeCt from people who calls his delicacy gabbage
To be fair, that´s northern USA where winters are very cold so heating is probably most of that energy. And the part about energy consumption killing the planet.. There´s propaganda and there´s facts. One fact is, that the world has *greened* thanks to human induced increase in CO2 in atmosphere www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2016/carbon-dioxide-fertilization-greening-earth
@@teppo9585 Do you think that Europe doesn't have cold winters?
@@maciejtrybilo 900 isn´t unreasonable in a cold area.. maybe his house is larger than yours.
I love this! As a mechanical engineer working in clean energy I get this question frequently. You all nailed the explanation!
Patrick M yet they left out all the possible energy efficiency improvements and fail to mention that even offsetting some of the coal sourced electricity would be great, particularly when someone is working out anyway and the energy would otherwise go to waste. Way to brush it off using #sience instead of finding ways to harness the energy of all the many people that work out every day. Hmmm
What if you used a pulley system and gearing to increase your output? Not to say you could power a home, but you must be able to double that amount at least.
@@visualartsmr.brandon2060 double?
I am completely ignorant but to me.. it seems like you could easily connect 100 of these cute little generators they have on the video, and a human could easily keep it going.
So you would produce 100x energy??
I don't know if that is right. And maybe you still can't power a house but it would be something rather than nothing.
It would take 50 cyclists, but only with the technology you used in the video. Wind power turbine can make 50kw easy, so why not a cyclist. If you used a system with 15 gears and a flywheel the size of a car, a generator the size of a washing machine, and a battery the size of a fridge-freezer, it would be the same as a wind generator and would power your house no problem. However, it would take quite a while to get the machine up to top speed, and a lot of human hours to keep it going.
Because the cyclist can't push the pedals hard enough?
How big of a wind turbine are you talking? Can you imagine trying to make it spin by hand (or foot)?
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mechanical advantage can be used to get you more torque per unit distance covered, or more distance per unit torque delivered (for a bike it's the latter i think) - it's not some free energy hack. your max human power output will always be the limit that you can get closer to depending on how well you can beat the inefficiencies of all the mechanical parts of the system and such. but you can only get closer to that limit, not exceed it.
I think if everyone used there dogs or animals we could use them to turn it lol
Alright, what if I only wanted to power a small LED for my tent and charge my tablet to watch some videos? A bike powered generator doesn't sound terribly unreasonable if you aren't charging a whole home.
Totally doable. It would still be a waste of time, if your tent had grid power anyways, but it doesn't, so it's not.
then again, you would most likely have a spare power bank charged fully with you than a setup to get electricity from your bike :D
Again, here’s the proof that a lot of North Americans think big. Everything has to be "bigger than life" and of course also the use of energy. In the video Adam says that a standard house uses about 900 kWh/month! That’s 4-5 times a household (2 persons in a 100m2 apartment in Barcelona) uses here (and we should use less).
The world will continue having a big problem while people think too big consuming.
First of all, focus on lowering the energy consumption. 901 kWh per month, just wow! I am Danish and I use 1200 kWh per year (2 ppl, 1 apartment (so no waterheater)), and an average Danish household (with 2 adults, 2 children (no aircon)) uses 6300 kWh per year or 525 kWh per month. So that being said, the bike would power a larger percentage of the household power consumption and lower the number of Adams neded to 29-30. This still does not make the power generating bike a favourable solutions, but you will save money without having to bike 8 hours a day.
I live in Romania in a 200square meters(2152 sq feet), and I use less than 300kWh/month. And except few led bulbs I do not try to save to much. If I were to replace all the bulbs for led, go for a solar water heater, and some new more efficient computers(I use them 8hours a day as my job), I would probably save another 100 kWh.
yeah i used to use about 400kwh a month by myself (no fridge) and due to some shit that went on i decided to cut down as much as i can and i managed to bring that to a little over 200kwh.
Yeah something is off 900 kWh per month is electricity of a medium office building. I think they messed up the calculation. It's not like he has lights, air conditioning and microwave all running simultaneously.
How do u shower?
Another look at the problem: ua-cam.com/video/S4O5voOCqAQ/v-deo.html.
but the beauty of the bicycle is that just one hour on the bike can save an entire month's worth of full time pedaling! You said that an entire month of 8-hour a day pedaling produces about as much energy as a half-gallon of gas. Well, that half-gallon of gas is going to get the average american car 10-12 miles, which is about an hour worth of riding. So by riding a bike for that 10 mile trip instead of driving, you can kick back for the rest of the month, having accomplished your entire month's goal in one hour!
And this is why it's important to have priorities.
An analogy:
If we just spend 7% of the money we spend on petrol on planting trees instead, you would drive CO² neutral. (According to my calculations)
One liter of petrol costs around €1.70 in the Netherlands.
Combusting petrol emits around 2.4kg of CO² per liter. So per €1.70 that you spend, you emit 2.4kg, which is 1.41kg per euro.
A fully grown tree absorbs 20kg of CO² per year.
Let's see how expensive it is to use teamtrees to compensate for €1.00 spent on petrol. (teamtrees is a charity event planting trees, one tree per dollar), I'm assuming every tree planted equates to one fully grown tree's year worth of CO², which I admit, is just a guess from me.
Spend €1.00 to absorb 20kg of CO², which is €0.05 per kg. For 1.41kg, that would be only €0.07.
It just seems to me like a waste of time to use electric cars for environmental reasons, opposed to planting trees. But I'm no expert so maybe I'm missing something here.
@@augustvctjuh8423 I like where your head’s at with trees. Very cool.
Now add growing red seaweed supplements commercially to feed the world’s cows to eliminate 80-85% of the methane produced by the beef/dairy industry and were looking at massive changes in our global foot print. Trying to work this out in my head. Red seaweed is in short supply and growing it away from the ocean will require massive ingenuity. But I’m up for the challenge. I know UC Davis is on this and Sunshine Uni in Australia is working on this as well as some shadowy US corps (of course). But I think people love cheese burgers, ice cream & cold glasses of milk. I’m willing to bet on the public & local farmers & ranchers will jump in on this as they are not going to take lightly the “infrastructure” & “reconciliation” bills lying down. 😉
It could add an element of enjoyment to being on an exercise bike which can easily generate enough power to charge a phone or even a laptop. You'd put in more effort and burn more calories if you knew your effort would be charging your devices.
if you were willing to make some big sacrifices on electrical use, like burning solid fuel on a range cooker for heat/cooking/hot water(not good for the air and people's lungs, but at least from a carbon-neutrality perspective it's only putting back in the air what would have rotted from a tree, unlike those pesky fossil fuels which if left to their own devices would have stayed deep underground and not ended up inthe atmosphere (please someone correct me on this if im wrong though, this is all stuff im parroting that ive heard elsewhere but logically it checks out in my book)) , or doing your laundry by hand, installing big windows for light and just sleeping when the sun goes down, using energy-efficient top-loading fridges, or other sorts of lifestyle adjustments, i think it'd be very possible for a fairly fit adult to generate everything they need to live with basic modern creature comforts. might end up spending all your free time at home topping up your batteries though haha
900? omg man i just use 40kwh on a month, care the planet please!
what do you use to heat and cool your house?
@@alexburnette2526 in summer i go to parks and rivers, in winter just put some clotes on. Trying to live like conforted Kings and Queens is destroing our planet and our sense of what life trully means.
@@fullmetaldg you made the comment 8 months ago an you replied back in just a few minutes. impressive how you can only use 40 kw a month.
@@alexburnette2526 i reply quick cause yt sended me a notification. I just want to put the theme that is possible and has so much sense for planet and for our selves as human beens to live in a new way. We need to change in order to great our lifes great again, and for that we need to get into the Nature.
Dude even now during COVID-19 I live with a family of 5 and we use about 200kWh per month. Seriously do you actually need air conditioning and heating? What I used to do is just go swimming when it gets to hot. And are people really that lazy to use a heater instead of wearing extra clothes when it gets cold?
Black mirror would beg to differ
Ha! I was thinking the same thing.
That's fiction, this is science.
Just one more reason for why that episode was the worst of the series
Great episode that really brought some interesting concepts. There's no reason why this idea couldn't be improved upon.
sooo true
"... who's got the answers... SKUNK BEAR! (8)" I love that intro too much
UnPuntoCircular gooood question🎵😀
I still can't get ♪ Finding the speed of light with Peeps ♫ out of my head.
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I miss you Skunk Bear!!! You had the best short spot on NPR.
If there's ever a zombie apocalypse I'm gonna have a basement full of zombies on treadmills to power my house.
That's genius 🤣
It would be worth doing if you wanted to be healthier anyway. Why do we need so much electricity in the first place? The modern person is addicted to electricity and telling people that you cannot save on energy is the same as saying be useless like everyone else. I would prefer to add a little electric energy to my dwelling than completely relying on something that will kill me anyway.
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If as you say 8 hours pedalling gives you 1 kilowatt-hour, and that is only enough to run a table lamp for a day (24 hours? 10 hours?), then your lamp must have a 40-100 watt bulb. A 5-watt LED lamp, good for lighting a whole room, would run for 200 hours; a 3-watt LED would run for 333 hours and 20 minutes, so lighting isn't a problem. Heating and hot water you would need to open a gym and get folk to pay you for the workout. Thought seriously, even raising the temperature of stored (hot) water slightly reduces household bils a bit
Can I still use it to save on the gym and a few bucks on the electric bill tho?
Never once asked the question on why do we need all that energy usage i.e. so many lights on, AC, etc. Conservation is key. My 3500 sq foot uses 752 per month.
I agree. I would have liked to see what is possible rather than just a yes/no verdict on a set predefined parameters. I think one could get pretty close to powering a well-constructed tiny home that has a wood burning stove for heat, on demand water heater, etc.
Devin Quince leds go a long way
The Sloth im thinking of building a tiny home in a bus, working on some ideas to power it. read my comment, i think i have a way to build my own and i will be using on demand water heater, propane oven and stove, gonna keep house and bus systems seperate so i can charge the house and jump the bus if i have to.
Average UK household uses about 300kwh per week. Modern builds use less.
Reduce > reuse > recycle
Reducing usage trumps all else.
That lamp (2:38) has a power requirement of 120W/60W/40W (if a days usual usage is about 8h/16h/24h) ... really?
Lamps of that type used to be powered by heating bulbs of at *max* 60W (typically more 20W).
But who would try to power his house with a bike and not use LED bulbs? That's 3W to maximally 6W!
Power usage does not increase when the time of usage increases.
No, but power usage by time (kWh, as was given in the video) increases linear ;).
They said 960 Wh/day for a commode lamp, without defining "day" (varies depending on latitude and date in most cases).
CmdrFirewalker My concern was with this:
'120W/60W/40W'
So you mean what the power of the lamp would be if it was calculated from that 0.96 kwh/day?
No. They didn't give a run time/day, so I made an estimated guess which was 8 hours/day, breaking the power of the lamp down to 120W. But I wanted to give them the benefit of the doubt, so I added the resulting power requirements for the cases of running it for 16 or 24 hours.
CmdrFirewalker That is what I meant.
So you think that 900kWh/month is a must =)
Yes, well the Tesla Coil hair dryer....
My thought exactly!
This implies that you need 900kw/h to live. This type of energy source is for emergencies (in america and other developed countries). I'm willing to bet that if people realized they have to pedal to power their home, they would be line drying their clothes, and turn their A/C off until its 90 deg inside.
This device and idea is very useful in undeveloped countries that have zero electricity. where they would happy with a single LED bulb so they can see at night time in their mud huts.
excellent comment
please do try avoid making bets
If they're living in a mud hut, simply getting an LED light might be a problem.
but still we can lower the cost of power power by 0.1 with one person and saving say 1$ for mouth
Power power $1 for mouth?
@Clara's Celestial Base . Well that "mouth" would eat a lot more than an extra dollar in food if they had to ride a bicycle all the time.
nice math
I see a lot of potential flaws in this argument. And the definition of a house can vary from one country to another. Mechanical efficiency can be improved through sound design to maximise the human exerted effort or work to produce more power.
lovely video, but I would like to point out you need to be active to stay healthy, so although you cannot power an entire modern household with a cyclist, you can replace a portion of it all with human powered tools to save money and be healthy while doing it. For instance, manual washing machines. With direct mechanical transmission, you don't lose any of your imputed energy to the battery. So it is very inefficient to power a television or an oven with a person, but many house hold jobs could stand to be replaced with pedal power.
That's a great point! Mechanical energy --> mechanical energy avoids a lot of the conversion inefficiencies.
Skunk Bear such a cringy, but funny intro
@@skunkbear I want to see a bicycle powered lathe.
Yabba dabba do (feet power cars)
Seemed very defeatist. Isn't offsetting some of your household energy worth it if you were going to be training on a bike anyway?
Yes, I think so.
I agree, whenever I've used a trainer in the off-season to stay in shape, I felt like I was just wasting energy (actually just creating heat). I built a pedal generator and use it to charge my phone and other mobile devices. I also found that wall chargers are very inefficient (20-30% losses) so direct charging with a 12v car charger is a better way to go!
Well, it's not really worth setting up the equipment, if you're using 900 kWh a month and only generating 5 (because you don't exercise 24 hours a day).
It does seem like a fun thing to build yourself though. So build it because you want to build it, not because you want to save your electricity bill.
agreed, lame conclusion to the video
@@thewhitefalcon8539 it's not about powering your whole house, if anything it can be a good mechanism to gain an appreciation of how much energy we use in the first place, but if you can power just a portion of your life and it brings psychological satisfaction, that it worth more than just the KWh saved
this video has came for you for your petroleum national company!
First episode I have ever watched... I was not expecting that intro o.0
Some done here got it: He cant power your house, he might be able to power another very low energy using house.
My household with gamer server, PCs, aircon, shower-water, ... usage 530 KWh month (summer), most normal families here in Thailand just under 300 ...
But I was looking for this on another way: going on my bike for 4 hours a day (as I did before, train for racing) would it be worth of saving like wind or solar ...
got 200 Watt average, 4 hours 800 W a day, ... would save me near 100 Baht a month = nice as also drop my wages for healthy (the bill now would be 2300 Baht, but Solar low it down to 600 Baht/month)
depending on the costs (invest) to build it up and an on-grid inverter ... it will take some time to pay it back cycling indoor ...
but still nice idea, never know what emergency could happen in future - if all you want is a light in the night ...
On a positive note: They're getting fit while making the power.
Rick's microverse powered battery comes to mind when I watch this. 😁
How much resistance is there when turning the "generator"? If the resistance is that of an alternator, seems like you could have many attached to the wheel and still pedal the bicycle easily.
There goes my plan of opening a power plant gym and selling the electricity.
1:03
Why it is analog electricity meter instead of digital?!
How old is that meter?🤔
Where did you get that generator? Was this the best you could do because the output could have been increase?!
Is there a way to make a gear build up to increase the speed of the gear spin (slowing the ratio gradually and be directly embedded as an electric motor to generate volts) and then use a tesla coil to increase the voltage? (And how large the tesla coil need to be?) (I am dumb on this one, not idea how many laws of physics I am missing, but if I am correct that could be awesome right? so, correct me please...)
Hi Adam
Can we generate electricity through ELECTROMAGNETIC INDUCTION??
Yo Bitch! Magnets! Induction motors require electricity to begin with for the field coils.
You can uses electromagnetic you will need gears pulls ac alternator deep cell batterys
Sound complicated to me. Like Mercedes.
awesome video :)
tf you doing here lol
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But how many potatoes would it take to power a house? Lol.
rethink the generator part, this one guy in India figured it out. He's giving away 10,000 to people in India and the machine costs about 25,000. one hour a day keeps the electricity on for 24 hrs. There is a way to do it using a heavy flywheel and using proper ratios. My idea is if you figure out the correct ratio, figure out the correct weight of the flywheel to store energy so as to help you pedal ( it would only take the power to climb a hill to get it moving the rest would be maintaining rpms like your on flat land with a heavy loaded bike trailer).
What video is that
It wouldn't be a matter of tweaking the generator and storage, it would be a matter of saving energy in your house. Leave the air con off, switch all the lights to LEDs, with lower wattage as well, turn them off when you're not in the room. For that matter, only do stuff in daylight. Get the best insulated and smallest fridge you can find. Eat canned or salted food so it doesn't need to be in the fridge. Good luck cooking things, I hope you can make one batch of cooked meal stretch a few days. (You can probably make a solar cooker, but that's cheating)
India uses a considerably less electricity than us.
@@Seddysaid ua-cam.com/video/Cgb9lfKW_d4/v-deo.html
Where are your diods to prevent loss of energy through transfer?
where can i get that thing you're powering with the bike? i want that so much!
also 1kwh per day lamp and it's that dim? holy shit. change get some leds ffs. that could be as bright and only use like 0.1kwh per day
CAN YOU PLEASE MAKE A VIDEO ON WHAT **CAN** BE POWERED BY A BICYCLE?
Well through the use of gears, like adding a rugs sprocket on the fron and a tiny one on the back, and adding more generators, shouldn’t you be able to generate more electricity?
I want to ask you how to summon the girl on my house
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Thanks Max!
I'm interested in the strength of the generator and and efficiency of the overall set up of some real engineering was applied to the setup.
I'm thinking a small car alternator connected to larger weighted flywheel and some high ratio pullies
Interesting. I was imagining if multiple wheels were connected on the same bar would it be possible to get better output?
and some electronics to control how much load we wanted to. if you have solar battery system, can dump the energy into that battery using electronics to convert the voltage.
this is a great channel love it.
Just a question..Why can't we use multiple machines to store power? If it is custom made then efficiency can increase many fold.
What kind of lamp need about 1kwh energy in a day(appr. 10 hour runtime in nighttime), are you living in Edison's century?
Adam Frank could shed a lot of load at home, even just switching to LED lighting, solar heating, and so on.
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I liked your bike generator though...looked very smooth and effecient compared to others.....where you get it? Plans? Point me in the right direction, please!
I would still feel better if the energy I'm burning trying to exercise turns into electricity instead of useless heat
what if you found way to decease the amount of kWh you use to run your house, is it possible?
Yeah - but it would be hard. You'd have to decrease your energy use 50 fold - in other words, you'd need to use about 2% of what you currently do.
Hot water might not be very important for minimalists . . . .
But what about emergency power, like the Texas black out during sub zero temps. Could a person pedal power enough energy to produce comfortable heat in one room (for their family), and maybe also recharge a phone? Forget the fridge, lights, microwave, etc, .
What if you could pedal 50 wheels on one set of pedals
Yes but if you pedalled in a freezing cold house which is very well insulated with the air conditioning disabled then the system would be near 100% efficient. Also great for fitness.
What kind of battery have you used? how long will it store?
and how can I further connect the battety to my household appliance?
1-From generator to battery,
2-From battery to inverter(connect battery to inverter)
3-From inverter to electric appliances such as hair dryer, refrigerator(yes u can power refrigerator using car battery, but battery will drain in 1-2 hour)
I think this would be different if you incorporated the bicycles pedaling+ added different gear ratio if I'm not mistaken adding the gear ratio would increase the generators rpm increasing the electricity produced
If you lived in a van could you use your bicycle to power stuff like a small gril, fan, light, mini fridge and heater.
Awesome question and answer. Love the video!
Seems like a gym could power its self though. And maybe schools could provide some of their own power via bicycles or other exercise equipment. Perhaps prisons as well. If people are already going to be exercising and using exercise equipment, wouldn't it be possible to capture some of that energy? Would it be worth it to create an infrastructure that could do it?
The pedal powered electric chair, where the condemned is forced to kill himself.
Best reply ever!!!
Not arguing that it can be done. But wouldn't a bigger wheel / wheels increase efficiency (less fatigue)?
I knew the answer to this before I watched the video. But can you use this method to keep a couple of computer fans running in a fallout shelter for ventilation? If you have to pedal 8 hours a day for 30 days to create the same energy in 1/2 a gallon of gasoline, that doesn't seem like it could do any useful work at all. In a fallout shelter, you'd want to run LED lights and ventilation fans, though you'd probably be more efficient at using the bicycle to power the vent fans directly. The problem with this is that the buildup of C02 is so quick inside a shelter with maybe 600 cubic feet of air and 3 people, you'd be faced with a difficult task to constantly peddle. to exchange air.
Could probably set up a more efficient mechanical system in which bikes could power larger box fans directly?
I do have questions about gears, speed has an upper threshold, but what about balancing out with some torque and a few more turbines on that pedal?
What if you setup a gear system with some type of weights to get some momentum going.. with some extra battery storage? How about the gear settings...
But if you heavily reduced your power consumption what could you do?
I'm confused. Are you saying total energy produced in 8 hours is 100w or 100w per hour? By either estimate I'm better off buying a 100w solar panel...
What about using a bike to pump water up into a water tower and using a screw style turbine to generate electricity as the water comes down from the tower? Would that be more efficient?
Dutch investigation bureau Nibud tells me a 1 person household gets up to 1.925 kWh per year. You are talking about 900 kWh per month? Seems U.S. house are power guzzlers.
Anyway, it´s also about how much power you need. You can run a dishwasher, or just do the dishes by hand. You could use incandescent bulbs or LED´s. If you are very energy efficient, you can power a house with 2 hours of pedalling.
Very cool!
Solar is a lot easier, but you can ride to the store or your work.
Why doesn’t this video have more than a few million views?!
Great video 👍🏾 how about adding more generators on the tire
900 kWh per month??? Wow! I just checked and my annual consumption (single male living in 50m2 in the Netherlands, single glazing windows and really don't pay that much attention to my energy consumption) is at 2500 kWh...
Lets say planet fitness powered the whole shopping center using the people who workout.? Hmmmmmmm.
Great video and well done creating it! What if I used different gear ratios off of the generator to multiply my effort on the bike? Would that improve the situation?
what about connecting 50 batteries to 50 generators all connected in a way that you can pedal these all at the same time..
Could u not link it up 2 your gym equipment and so what if it dosent power everything every little helps
I want to attach generator to my bike so I can store it in battery banks lol gotta have them spare battery banks
That garbage plate looks delicious.
can we store electricity while riding it?
I’m looking at converting a stationary bike with a flywheel with increasing gears to gain significant speed to power a wind turbine alternator. My hope is that I can apply this energy to add that last little bit of boost to a small scale power system that is running on solar and wind. Mostly for proof of concept. Seeing the math applied here has me realizing why no one takes this very seriously. I’m mostly considering this as an option to power simple things like a 700W hot plate to cook a meal or boil a pot of water. Simply to say that I did.
Why can't bicycle power supply enough for a house?
① He use dryer, instead of air-dry
② Microwave
③ Air-conditioning (Note: If you live in hot climate or a heat wave happening, you still need air-conditioning. But keep in mind, use it wisely but not use it whenever you feel like.)
④ Heater (Same as above)
⑤ Washing machine (Either washing clothes until its almost full load, or hand-wash small items like towels, underwear, socks while showering.)
⑥ IDK how much he uses lights in daytime when it's sunny and bright outside. But turn off the lights and use sunlight by the windowsill to work and study is a great way to save energy.
⑦ TV
If he at least get rid of the dryer, that'll save him a lot of energy. Combining good habit on low-energy living, I don't think it's impossible to live with only human-power electricity. This video is somehow exaggerated.
I love the intro
Ok so I see alot of people using alternators with a bicycle but hear me out how about using gear reduction systems and a actual generator pack off a industrial generator to see if you can get the gear ratio right to run that generator pack at 1800 rpms if we can get that type of set up those packs can generate enough to run 5 houses on 1 pack at any given time so that would make it quite easy to pay a single home with that generator pack
Where is your Patreon SkunkBear?
:) If you'd like to donate - give to your local NPR station!
I can be done. Obviously with the power consumption of this specific home, it seems impossible. Bicycle power is not the issue. It's the inefficiency of all the appliances. If the appliances had the efficiency of LED lights, a simple 24,000mah phone charger power bank, could power an entire home. So please don't make it seem like it's impossible.
I have to ask only cause I don’t know, what if you changed the gear ratio from the bike to the battery
Thanks for this perfect answer guys
So your gallon of gasoline may power your extravagant lifestyle (by world standards) now but not for long, Easy oil is gone, now they have to wreck the environment to get oil. Soon even that will be gone and you might need to make do with the amount of energy a house uses in rural Africa where they use bicycle powered generators to power their led lights and charge their cell phones and that's all they need electrical power for. In parts of the third world they use bicycles to directly grind grain to flour and many other tasks which is much more efficient than pedaling to create electricity.
I’m not a professional but why can’t you just up the gear ratio and produce more turns on the alternator
Love this amazing video
What if you used a pulley system and gearing to increase your output? Not to say you could power a home, but you must be able to double that amount at least.
Yeah, I needed to know that. Thanks.
Eliminate the Air conditioner, put a clothes line up in your back yard (solar clothes dryer) Install a solar water heater and you could *VERY EASILY* power your home with a 6,000 Watt array of photovoltaic panels. The cost to install this array could EASILY be under $10,000 dollars and the amount of area would be 600 square feet or less. With being a little more creative and energy efficient you could *EASILY* power your home with a solar array of half that size ... and the cost could be $5,000 dollars or less.
Really satisfied after getting my answer
Using your hands may be a little less consuming. And more rewarding..
Which means you could have two people, on one bike, to get the real speed. Which would raise the kwh to about 2.5 (however, the decrease of the 'go through', with battery, and generator, it gets bumped down a bit.)
And further on, with about 4 people (Let's say it's a family)
They could raise the gears, and make it easy for the hands to rotate, getting nearly 8 kwh..
Now, you'd be lookin, and sayin "why, how would that work anyways?"
Glad you asked!
For a higher gear on the bike, it would not only get the wheels well-on with the spinning, but also make it easier to rotate.
Thereby producing more energy.
I calculate this 2.5/Person.. including the dropdown with the battery, generator, and wires.
I totally had an idea for a gym that was entirely dedicated to powering batteries using rowers, bikes, ellipticals, etc.