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| One hour of pedalling this generator yields 24 hours of power for your home. |
I like being self-propelled, and have enjoyed riding a bicycle since I was a little person. I like it as much today as then, and it remains my favourite way to get around.
I am interested in anything pedal or leg powered. It makes a lot of sense.
Arms are good, but legs are so much more effective at getting things done.
Our lower extremities are 3-5 times stronger than our arms, and they have better endurance as well.
As it turns out, we can power a lot with our legs.
Some examples of devices, besides transportation, that could also operate using human energy are:
- coffee grinder
- generator
- flour mill
- water pump
I can see myself getting exercise on a leg-powered generator, and charging my whole-house battery system at the same time.
In a centralized grid-based for-profit monopoly energy structure, making your own power is a revolutionary act. It helps us reduce our dependence on a sick and dying system.
Plus you get muscular legs. I'm going for thunder thighs myself.
Also, researchers have found that muscle fitness as measured by leg strength is strongly associated with an improved rate of ageing in the brain.
We love a high tech solution, like mining lithium to make batteries to build electric cars, but good old low tech leg power is hard to beat.
And if it is good for the brain, too, I'm in.
Power to the people... and their pedals!
I love this!! I'm really interested in alternative sources of energy outside of using dead dinosaurs. Biking and walking are the bomb. Or scootering/skateboarding. We walk everywhere. I always feel so annoyed/sad when I see parents dropping off their children to school in their huge SUVs when I know they live about a ten minute walk away. These are not little ones, but kids old enough to walk in a quiet rural town. aargh I am judgmental, but we're raising our young people to be dependent on the wrong things :( There are so many things to see when you walk! Forest walks are awesome but anywhere there can be interesting things to be seen. Today it was super foggy- which is unusual here. As we walked to school, it led to the children and I talking about why it was foggy, what other cities experience fog and how other people walking in the fog looked like the mysterious 'Big Foot' (according to our youngest lol). Every morning brings a new conversation and wonderment :)
ReplyDeleteCars are dangerously fast and you miss everything along the way. Sometimes my bike is too fast. Still miss a lot. Walking is the way to go for freedom and adventure. Look out for Big Foot and other creatures!
Delete- Gregg