Dealing with the Cost of Energy
Here’s an article that begins: People often complain about both the high cost of energy and the fact that “they don’t have time to exercise.” This invention certainly solves both problems.
Not exactly. Professional cyclists put out 200 – 300 Watts, averaged over a four-hour ride. If this guy can deliver 150 for a full hour, he’s doing great.
That’s 0.15 kilowatt-hrs. The average house in the U.S. uses 20 times that, about 30 kilowatt-hrs per day. So either you get 19 other bicyclists, or he rides 20 hours/day.
He may be smiling now, but alas, that won’t last long.
Agreed Craig, it is interesting how businesses promote something which is highly difficult to achieve realistically. Switching over to solar would be a better alternative. The shift to solar panels is certainly the most “green movement” to shift the dependency from non-renewable energy resource to renewable energy. Many utilities and industries are looking to adapt to the current digital trend and introducing mobile applications for utility customers which features to compute and analyze energy and solar information.