[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.

[Hardastarboard]

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.

Go to the gym and ride the stationary bicycle and you'll see that producing a mere 150 watts (assuming the bike you get shows your effort in watts) will make you soon ready to puke. 300 watts per human on an extended basis is a JOKE.

From a simple engineering systems perspective, this makes no sense whatsoever. It takes lots of processed carbohydrate fuels to power the human body.

I was thinking the same thing, intuitively, with out the math. It takes fuel to make the machines that plant, harvest and transport human food. It takes fuel to power the factories that produce the processed carbohydrates, and then transport them to the stores, where we burn fuel to go retrieve them. And then you have to enslave people to ride FIFTEEN bicycles to power a puny number of low consumption LED lights.

These people are psychotic @$$holes, and they have to be stopped, or we'll ALL be slaves, not just the ones chained to the power generating bicycles.