Read further to figure out how. There are multiple things you can do with the watts that you produce on a bike. These include things such as:.
Do you know how far you can go with the average amount of watts? You can get an average of 6 to 7 miles in an hour, or how normal people would say 6 to 7 miles per hour. If you think about it, you could get to some of your most favorite destinations in less an hour. If you happen to live in a very country-like area, it may take a longer time for you to get there. On top of that, biking has always been healthy for you so you can become healthier by just getting to the places you normally need to get to!
With that, you will have the same amount of power that your common wall outlet. Your common wall outlet puts out an average of volts. You already know what you can power with the common wall outlet. You can charge your phone, power a lamp, even power an entire entertainment system and watch your favorite tv shows while you bike solely based on the power that you are putting out with your legs.
The kind of storage that you can provide with your cycling can be stored into batteries or power units that can overtime accumulate power to be used at any time. An example of power storage such as that is crank-powered radios.
One of the supplies should be a crank radio. Crank radio is an emergency radio with a wind-up crank on the side that you can turn to create the power to make that radio work, the exact same mechanic of bicycling.
Now that you have stored up all that power, what are you going to do with it? First, you need to see how much power you have stored up. Did you recharge a rechargeable battery? Did you recharge a portable charger? Did you recharge an entire generator? Yes, with the watts that you generate by using your bike, you could recharge a generator. What can you do with generators? You can use power tools in an outdoor setting. You can perform a concert in the middle of your camping trip.
You can even power a hospital room when their power goes out. But money aside, isn't bicycle power a form of green energy? The answer is that it depends on where you get your calories. Just as with the money costs, if you're overweight or exercycling instead of other exercise, then yes, the piddling amount of energy you create is indeed green.
But if you're already at a decent weight and not substituting for some other kind of exercise, then you're going to eat more food to power your effort, and the pollution caused to produce the food for your cycling is more than the pollution caused by geting the energy from the grid.
By comparison, the energy from the power plant makes only about 5 lbs. But there's more. When you charge your battery, there's inefficiency in the friction drive between your bike wheel and the motor, inefficiency in the motor itself converting rotational motion into electricity, energy lost in the voltage regulator which keeps you from putting too much energy into the battery too quickly , inefficiency of energy going into the battery, and then when you want to use the energy you made, there's the inefficiency of energy going out of the battery, and inefficiency in the inverter.
It's likely that at least a third of your effort will vanish into thin air. But what about putting the generators in gyms where people are exercycling or using ellipticals anyway? Yeah, it's green energy, because otherwise the exercisers' energy is wasted, but the far easier solution is to just stop using ridiculous amounts of energy in the first place.
A single family can easily save more energy by making some modest changes than the entire fleet of ellipticals at TSU can produce. The website you're reading now gives concrete examples of how to do so. How much energy stuff uses How to measure electrical use Mr. That was why we started working towards the 55 km target. In London on the day, however, because the air pressure was 1, millibars, to cover The pace I went depended on the pressure on the day.
Wiggins did end up doing about Watts as his final distance was If Wiggins' bike were attached to a bicycle generator and it was super efficient, Wiggins would have been generating enough power to light up 7 Watt light bulbs!
The cycling blogger Alex Simmons has a great article on the current Masters Men Hour Record holder Jayson Austin and his power output over his attempt at the Master's record in Jayson's average power output was Watts over the hour he rode. The year before Jayson tried to go for the record but was only able to produce an average of Watts he wasnt feeling too well, so you can see his power output decline the longer he rode.
The graph of the two attempts can be seen at the right. As you can see, the best human efforts at producing power over the course of an hour on a bicycle are around Watts. To put this in perspective, when my AC is running full blast my house can consume about 4, Watts or 4 kW.
I would need over 10 of the best cyclists in the world attached to bicycle generators to power my house when it is consuming this much power! While this doesn't diminish the effort of the cyclists, it does demonstrate that powering our future by pedal power doesn't look like an option, unless they want to work for nickels November issue of Bicycling magazine has an excellent article on human powered bicycle generators that I highly recommend.
As someone who is passionate about renewable energy and cycling, I get very excited reading this stuff. The article mentions two companies that are trying to retrofit gym equipment and spin classes to produce and display cyclists power output. ReRev is retrofitting gym equipment to produce clean energy and The Green Revolution is doing something very similar and targeting spin classes. I've wanted something like this in my gym for awhile.
I'm not a big fan of spin class currently because there is no feedback on how I'm performing and improving. These companies can provide valuable feedback on your power output AND produce clean, renewable energy for the grid. This is win-win stuff. BTW, we're working on a new site all about cycling power output and comparisons.
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