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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My (relatively small) refrigerator consumes around 170kWh annually.
According to another commenter further down, a pro cyclist can put out 300W continually. That works out to about 566.6 hours, or 23.6 days of continuous cycling just to power the refrigerator for a year.
I am not a pro. The last time I seriously tried to use an exercise bike, I was able to keep a steady ~110W over 45 minutes (which left me drenched in sweat and feeling jittery for quite a few hours after the fact). That works out to 1417 hours, almost exactly 2 months, which I would need to spend on the bike at my absolute limit per year to keep my refrigerator running.
And of course, none of this is taking losses in energy transmission/storage into account. In short, I don't see this catching on any time soon.
That wouldn't be your limit for long though, if you did it regularly.
Maybe, but thet would approach the pro level, which still is not acceptable for refrigerator use. Good for their health, but not useful work
Yeah I think the electricity thing is supposed to just be a bonus.
Is it? Others have questioned if the total electric gain makes up for the extra costs (which an be $$ or just environmental)
So what you're saying is I need a very tiny refrigerator.
Or you could hook an electric motor up to the bike to turn the pedals
Wouldn't I need to buy two more bikes and people to pedal them to power the first bike? What if I start a gym that's only focus is cardio and then resell that energy the people nearby.