Using a bicycle or exercycle to generate electricity.
LoopyByteloose
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Would it be too ambitious to connect an automotive altenator to the pedals of a bicycle for power to charge a gel cell battery?
Alternatively, could one use a smaller altenator or generator from a motorcycle or motorscooter to provide power?
Both are readily available and can often be salvaged for pennies.
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Alternatively, could one use a smaller altenator or generator from a motorcycle or motorscooter to provide power?
Both are readily available and can often be salvaged for pennies.
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- Stephen
As our infrastructure in Africa crumbles, we are all looking to alternatives, particularly reliable electricity and safe drinking water. Home water filtration and treatment is becoming more common but nobody has come up with a successful simple cheap alternative power source yet. We just use those small noisy petrol generator sets.
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In most cases I'd rather not endlessly pedal a bicycle for power. It certainly would be much nicer to let the wind, the sea, or the sun do the job. But we obviously have altenators and generators that are easily salvaged to play with.
A bicycle built for two would be a better starting point.
It is poignant that Africa with 25% of the membership of the U.N. has yet to overcome its struggles. Most recently South Africa has been shutting working mine to provide enough electricity to urban areas and many areas have had a resurgence of malaria due to the ban on DDT.
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Post Edited (Kramer) : 7/12/2008 1:52:10 PM GMT
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