I want to know if it would be feasible to make exercise equipment (like a bike, treatmill, stair stepper, etc.) that would produce a small amount of electricity when used. Could this type of equipment be modified to produce enough electrical energy to make a noticeable difference in a monthly power bill? If it was feasible, think about the benefits! Not only would we have a new (albeit small) source of energy, but we might be motivated to get off our butts and exercise more. Okay, its a wacky thought, but I just wondered. What do you think?
hi , this is absolutely possible, if a mobile requires only around 5 volts output adapter for charging, this means we in turn loose energy by steping the 240 v to 5 volts, so by using an instrument causing electromagnetic flux of 7.6 volts, which will give net output of 5 volts ( with ac derater ) , we can easily save th energy at least required for mobile charging, many more apllications can be done, a simple very simple apllication would be moving vheicles, like , dyanamos, charge the batteries fitted in side the vheicle it self and in the same manner we can have two batteris, and one will be a overflow battery, the cars, truks, and other large vheicles, daily moving at least hundreds of kilometers can produce, and store lot of energy, and save in national wealth,
Of course this can be done, keep in mind energy is not free. You will increase your food intake when you start generation energy and there is always a loss. So the most efficient is to lay in bed all day.
The most effective way of getting green is to cut the needed electricity/gas income to work. How to do it? Many electrical and gas systems are the 20th century version of a mechanical device powered by water, wind, gravity and/or animals. Very simple principles applied to complex machines makes something both astonishing and effective. You could pump water out of a river just by using its own torque. Imagination is 99%, as Einstein said; be imaginative and create something that is both efficient and useful for you. And if you can do it for others, go on. After all, Rome had the most efficient water system for a long run; until New York in the 30s, no other city brought more water per day than Ancient Rome at its pike. Only used gravity New York used pumps, many of them. The Islam medieval world used, created or modified many things which are still in use today. The mechanical world is not a modern invention; the man just remembered how it used to be.
To produce enough electrical energy to make a difference on your power bill, you would have to eat twice as much as Michael Phelps training for the olympics. That would be expensive. Food isn't cheap, and your body produces heat when it works (energy loss), and only can provide a bit of power as a result. Also, you'd lose energy in the transformation of the electricity into something useful - whether you were storing it in a battery (chemical energy loss), pumping it into your tv (transformer energy loss), or transmitting it somewhere else (transmission energy loss). Lot of bikes have self-powered capability, but they also have minimal logic and minimal displays.
y dont you do it? ride a bike to power your tv or your computer you can turn a 110 jenny with about 1/4 horspower in other wards your legs
