An Hour on this Bicycle can Power your Home for 24 Hours

[angelandsoul]

lol its not possible, i have seen some figures of what would be required if sir bradley wiggins went at tour de france speeds for hours you still cant power a household all day unless its a lightbulb and a fan, and thats Sir bradley wiggins smashing it for hours!!
anyone one else after an hour you be lucky to just get an hour of light bulb!!

Not possible to break the laws of thermodynamics...

 

[xyxmt]

great but how much this bicycle will cost ?

cant cost more than one months electricity bill from K-electric

 

[as1mz]

The guy is a billionaire isn't he? I fail to understand why, if so, would he brag about a failed creation.

 

[VCheng]

Pakistan sure could use something like this. Imagine what it would do for alleviation of poverty in the country and the rural areas. Any mechanical and electrical engineers in the house?

An Hour on this Bicycle can Power your Home for 24 Hours | Today in Pakistan

An athlete can develop one-third horsepower and an average person about one-seventh horsepower for sustained periods. Assuming a fit person with an output of, say, one-fifth of a horsepower, the total output would be about 150 W-hrs. Assuming 95% efficiency of conversion, the total energy available would be about 142 W-hrs. An average house consumes the following:

The claims do not seem robust at all.

 

[as1mz]

If that's true it's certainly a shame.. For a person of such means to make such claims.