Excellent idea. Although I wonder if inmates in excellent physical shape is such a good thing. I wonder if we could hoook it up to the city power lines and make them power the city through pedaling all day and night.
LOL yeah greenie heads are gonna splode.
Ed Begley should be proud, as I heard he as a pedal powered toaster.
Great Fat Fighting Idea. Michelle should commend Sheriff Joe for a way to fight youth obesity. LOL
Love it!
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Too bad he endorsed that flaming socialist Romney.
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Yet another innovation in in penal services from Sheriff Arpaio! Not only is it a form of green power but it can be used to counter obesity in our jails.
Way to go Joe!
Hey Joe do pay-per-view on the sports channel and let people bet on who generates the most juice too, there’s help for the budget too.
The ultimate bet would be how long it would take to fry someone in the electric chair that way.
ingenious. I think they should force the inmates to pedal, store the electricity somehow, and sell it on the open market.
From “green” baloney to “green” energy! Sheriff Joe is da man! He’s keeping the planet green. (Except here in the desert southwest where everything is either brown or pastel colors.)
Years ago a National Lampoon cover showed a black man on a stationary bicycle coupled to a generator powering a television set as a white couple sitting on a sofa watched. The title of that issue was “Black Power Comes To South Africa”. In smaller letters was a caption “You Bring DeBeers, Let’s Have Apartheid”. Why do I still remember this shi*?
Good for Joe! Teaching the tried and true - if you want something, you work for it.
Great work again, Joe!
Too bad the reporter doesn’t understand how batteries are charged. Twelve-volt lead-acid batteries are charged by chargers putting out 13-14 volts or so. You can’t charge a battery with 12 volts. Therefore, right after the inmates start pedaling, they are putting out more than 12 volts. A battery charged to 12 volts is only about 20% or less charged. When the batteries are fully charged, their output is about 12.6 volts to as high as 13 or more.
But I don’t expect reporters to understand anything having to do with science.
Sheriff Joe - we love him like a hamster loves its wheel.
LOL! It’ll be fun to see what the pro-illegals and the Communists whine about with this!
Not a bad idea maybe there is hope for this country.
Think globally, act locally.
Maybe he can develop a peddle power air conditioner? I love this guy!
Pray for America