[vader69]

1HP=746W does not work here.

There is no 100% efficient way to create electrical energy out of mechanical or vice versa.

It takes a 17HP diesel engine to create 6KW of power with a small generator.

Using a human engine like yourself or Al Gore and assume that both of you would provide 0.1HP the output of electrical energy will be variably different. ;)

[topher]

Then the 17 HP Diesel that generates 6KW is only about 47% efficient. A 17 HP Diesel generates 12.7 KW... Mechanical and Electrical Watts are about the same from what I have read -- though conversion is a different story...

Maybe Al Gore III had all that vicodin to get his Prius up to 100 mph (when he was recently arrested in Los Angeles -- pedaling his Prius per Fred Flintstone...)