The author of the article is using the bike as a back up to his solar panels when the power is out. He isn't going to be running AC and arc welders off the pow

The author of the article is using the bike as a back up to his solar panels when the power is out. He isn't going to be running AC and arc welders off the power generated from his bike. More likely some lights and phone/laptop charging. The power from the bike is likely to be more than sufficient for those use cases.