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Use Your Bike as a Backup to Your Backup Power Supply
- ozten 6y agoThis is really cool! In a serious emergency where food supplies are limited, you probably only want to trade calories for highly valuable survival resaons.
- pierrefermat1 6y agoThis seems impractical to any degree at all where you're in an emergency with 1. no access to sunlight 2. an extreme desire for battery power that can't wait 3. have already used up your reserve battery 4. no shortage of food
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- mft_ 6y agoBonus: as you get fitter, you’ll get better at charging too! (No criticism, but 80w is a pretty gentle power output for a cyclist. It wouldn’t take too much training for many people to comfortably exceed that power level.)
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- bitwize 6y agoMakes me think of Imogen Heap giving a concert in a yurt with bicycle generators powering all her electronic music gear -- which is one of the most Imogen Heap things ever.
- runawaybottle 6y agoStill remember the Northeast blackout in the 2000s. If that lasted even a few days, all smartphones would be dead. Will keep this bookmarked.
- jl2718 6y agoI have a Tacx Neo and I’d like to try battery charging with it. Anybody know the easiest way to do that?