Pedal-powered Christmas tree lights Copenhagen (Hussein and Hillary will pitch in)

ZD Net Asia ^ | 12/01/09 | Martin LaMonica

[Libloather]

Hey - score one for having 'Christmas' mentioned in any Big Media title!

Looks like she just finished a triathlon - no?

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton gestures as she addresses a press conference at the APEC Foreign Ministerial Meeting in Singapore. The United States called Wednesday for a compromise at next month's global climate talks in Copenhagen and urged Asian countries including China to do their part in forging a deal.

[unkus]

Anyone falling for this propaganda deserves the slavery they invite.

What BS they wish to promote.

[the anti-liberal]

So, they’re advocating the creation of a slave class who will do the pedaling and provide the superior class with electricity?

[HiTech RedNeck]

no no they’re doing it all wrong. they need solar panels and eco-friendly storage batteries. people breathe out carbon dioxide ya know?

[rfp1234]

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,491705,00.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+foxnews%2Fscitech+%28FOXNews.com+-+SciTech%29

[torchthemummy]

But the past two weeks have seen a number of political twists, summarized at the New York Times.

Hey Reuters - how about explaining briefly what these "political twists" were that NYT summarized.

[rfp1234]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=doQvWsJRCPs&feature=channel_page

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Good Lord, what BS. From a simple engineering systems perspective, this makes no sense whatsoever. It takes lots of processed carbohydrate fuels to power the human body. And the human body is very inefficient at converting that fuel to work (think Carnot efficiency when the body is operating at ~100 deg F and the heat sink is at 80 F). Overall, you are getting much much lower conversion efficiencies of fuel to electrical power than you get from a conventional fossil fuel fired power plant. But engineering economics makes little sense to libs.

This idea is no doubt brought to us by the corrupt and crooked “scientists” who have been scamming governments to pay for GW “research” all these years.

[piasa]

Pedal-powered lighting.

Next stop for western "civilization," must be mao-suited workers pulling rickshaws through the streets.

[thecabal]

Anyone ever calculated the efficiency of using a human to power a string of LEDs? It must be well into the single digits. Google suggests a person can generate a sustained 300 watts or so over an extended length of time. I have no idea how much power is generated by the body to convert to 300 watts of mechanical power. There are about 45 LEDs powered per bike, but no specs on how much power consumption each uses. If they are 0.5 W each, then you are already into the single digit efficiency range, not even counting how much power the human body had to expend to make the mechanical energy.

What a joke.

[piasa]

You wouldn’t expect them to figure out something as complex as yoking oxen to the contraption to generate electricity, would you?

[piasa]

This new world the libs are creating bears a strong resemblance to the set of Planet of the Apes.

[bigoil]

Charleton Heston would have to pedal on a stationary bike to power one tiny Dostyevsky-like uncovered light bulb in his apartment in Soylent Green.

Is that the visual they are trying to send?

[thecabal]

Damn dirty apes!

My thought was that the Wheel of Pain from Conan was a better scheme than this.

[HiTech RedNeck]

But oxen farts add to global warming.

[Carling]

Somebody needs to get a picture of this.

It will be Obama’s 2012 “Kerry in a bunnysuit” or “Dukakis in the tank” image.

[The Cajun]

Hell, in honor of this crap I'll bring out my 15KW tractor PTO powered generator and light up my 5 foot tall Christmas tree with it. Due for its’ yearly check out anyway, nothing like the sound of a 30 HP diesel humming at 1800 RPM. ;^)

[married21]

Haven’t you guys been to LegoLand, either in Carlsbad, CA or Denmark? Most of the rides there have a human component. Kids have to pull, push, stomp or pedal or something to make it happen. I think the Danes probably feel that the benefits of the exercise and participation outweigh the fact that the human power source is less efficient. And if a non-flatulent human pedals, you have cleaner air, too.

As to having animals do the labor, I’m sure animal rights people would object to forcing oxen to walk around. However, hamsters on wheels, might be ok, since they do that on their own volition, and take breaks whenever they want.

[BBell]

I think it's great they are calling it a Christmas tree. I hope the local muzzies agree. I hear they can be very violent in Copenhagen.

[ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas]