Comments on: Thought-experiment: Bicycle-powered Heat Pump?

By: admin

admin — Fri, 21 Jan 2011 18:22:53 +0000

Really sorry about that – do you want me to add a link to something? Your flickr stream, etc?

By: patrick

patrick — Fri, 21 Jan 2011 06:55:27 +0000

Hi! I don’t mind so much that you’ve used a photo of mine (the bicycles), but it sure would have been nice (and appropriate and courteous) if you’d asked to use it first.

By: Jonathan McCarver

Jonathan McCarver — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 19:59:51 +0000

What about a sterling engine mounted half indoor and half outdoor with fans on it (powered by the bike drive) A full on heat pump for a home is going to use a large part of its energy to move it’s cooling substance through long tubes but this could be enough to heat or cool a single room noticeably.

By: inflatable dildo

inflatable dildo — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 10:11:05 +0000

Wow! This innovation is very promising, can't wait for these to be massively distributed in every nation so that more people could opt for its environment friendly technology. We could go a long way with such devices, if only more people would opt for its beneficial technology.

By: Nathan

Nathan — Wed, 28 May 2008 22:19:22 +0000

Hi, i’ve recently been thinking about a similar idea.
I’ve done some research and i turns out that only a top athelete cycling at full pelt can produce 200watts an hour. Obviously this stint can only be held for a short period of time. It is more realistically going to be 75watts over a 2 hour period.

My idea was to run several of these bike powered generators in parallel so you would be able to multiply your output by the number of generators you have.