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|    Vaughn to Winston    |
|    Re: pedal power    |
|    16 Jul 12 07:43:35    |
      From: vaughnsimon@gmail.com              On 7/16/2012 12:08 AM, Winston wrote:       > (At my peak of fitness, I could generate 70 W for about 30 minutes       > then I was *quite* finished.)              That implies that in a mere 28.6 hours you could generate a whole kW/h       of power, and (at .15 per Kw/h) it would only take 190 hours to generate       one dollar's worth of electricity.              Assuming that you could cobble all the equipment together for $500, and       you had no maintenance or cooling costs and 100% efficiency, you would       break even on your investment in a mere 95,238 hours of peddling.              This idea is looking better and better!              Vaughn              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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