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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   
      
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