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why not bypass the bike completely? Thin flexible solar panel - disguised as some hologram-like corporate sponsor logo or even under the shirt with the shirt so
by trhway 2y ago
why not bypass the bike completely? Thin flexible solar panel - disguised as some hologram-like corporate sponsor logo or even under the shirt with the shirt somewhat transparent or the panel weaved into the shirt - on the back of the cyclist as a source of energy which is fed as electric impulses straight into the cyclist muscles, pacemaker on steroids so to say. This can also be done in the other sports - like long distance runners for example. Another use of the energy, instead of into the muscles, is to generate some wave like vibrations of the shirt and the pants, like dolphin skin does, to decrease the air friction.
- elzbardico 2y agoElectric impulses are, roughly speaking, used as the signalling mechanism for muscles, not as the source of energy for their contraction.
- trhway 2y agoLike a pacemaker the external impulse is to help jerk the muscle as the tiredness sets in, not to directly provide energy. For direct energy consumption one can for example implant into legs small - just for several Newtons of force - electrically contracting kind of artificial tendon/muscle.