Sunday November 8, 2009, 9:46 am
Boy, now this is a win -win !!!!

Sunday November 8, 2009, 9:57 am
cool

Sunday November 8, 2009, 5:25 pm
Yes, I have been looking into this for some time.

The 'Weza' costs about US$299. It is a stair-stepper type generator, you stand on the pedals and move them up and down. It produces about forty watts. That is enough for a laptop or small B&W TV. This is great for emergencies.

I know from exercise machines I can produce about sixty watts riding a bicycle fairly easily.

I also have to take climate into account. I live in sub-tropical Florida, and most of the year, we have excess heat. Using a stationary bicycle produces power - plus the body heat from producing it. As we use A/C (it got 84 here in Lakeland today, it will hit 86 tomorrow) most of the time, it tends to be counter-productive.

On the other hand, if I lived up north, using a stationary bike would make sense - in fact, most of the time you are heating anyways, so the body heat produced making the power is put to good use.

There are companies that sell hand-powered equipment. I have a hand-crank flashlight/cell phone charger. In fact, it has the standard "cigarette lighter" plug found in cars (now called the accessory plug), so I can plug anything into it.

We need to take matters into our own hands. before Jean paul Getty, American farmers made their own power with windmills. We need solar heat, solar electricity, windpower, wave power, tidal power, geothermal...and most important of all, that hot air blowing out of the Capitol!

Monday November 9, 2009, 2:06 pm
Super, my hubby is a biker :-)

Tuesday November 10, 2009, 2:25 am
It´s the fixe-bike´s exercise with a less consume of electricity.