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> i.e. unlikely to cover the cost of lighting and heating. You forgot the most important factor in this - extra food. Those people will burn a lot of calories
by antisthenes 7y ago
> i.e. unlikely to cover the cost of lighting and heating.
You forgot the most important factor in this - extra food.
Those people will burn a lot of calories, and surely enough compensate for it with a snack or maybe an extra meal. That alone makes any sort of human electricity generation scheme generally not viable.
- sopooneo 7y agoWe're assuming the people would have been doing the biking regardless.
- m-i-l 7y agoYes, they would be doing something they would be doing anyway, e.g. exercising at a gym, with the electricity generation just a useful byproduct. Wasn't thinking along the lines of something like a Matrix-style human power plant.
- antisthenes 7y agoAh, my bad then. I remember Top Gear or some-such show attempting this experiment and having stationary gym bikers charge their EV. It didn't do too well.