This exercise bike can store your pedalling power and run your fridge - is this the future of indoor cycling?
This exercise bike can store your pedalling power and run your fridge - is this the future of indoor cycling?
Finally, a way to capture all that energy output and put it to good use
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There's efficiency losses in order to store it, and humans don't put out a whole lot of power anyway.
Yeah. but if you're doing it anyways for exercise, might as well use the energy.
Ehh, not necessarily. Would you even recoup the energy and materials needed for such a bike? Would be a bit different if the energy was stored in something other than a battery.
You're already going to have the exercise bike if that's what you want so now we are only recouping the generator and parts. Why do you hate progress?
Because if you can't recoup the energy cost then it's just more waste. I'm just saying it's not straightforward.