The idea came to me one morning when, climbing the stairs of the building, I saw a landing on one of the neighbors who pedaled with some effort on his exercise bike. I thought: "But look how much energy is wasted, this gentleman Ride for the sole purpose of doing exercise to keep fit. But not a sin not to use all this energy for some other purpose? These days you do not talk about that alternative energy, wind, geothermal, etc., but no one has thought to use human energy.
The exercise bike, jogging done on the rotating pad and many other exercises with machines that will only become a gym (which are pleasing to many women) would not be as useful if it had not wasted so much energy?
I started with my children to do a project. We designed an exercise bike for three people who would have served to transform human energy into electricity. We did some tests to find out what was performance than an hour's ride of one, two or three people. We found that with the help of a flywheel of the right size (the rim of a truck) after starting a bit 'hard for the start, the inertia of the flywheel helps a great deal of return in half an hour you can get to Load up a high-capacity battery. Transforming direct current into alternating current, sufficient for lighting the home, the TV and computer. Our exercise bike are made so that it also acts while riding on the handlebars, so you get maximum performance with the same effort. Me and my boys go to the gym instead of doing these exercises every morning, So we have a highly developed musculature. In addition, we produce energy, we tend to use it more carefully, no lights left on unnecessarily and the much-used appliances. While we sing pedal to give us the momentum to reach the required speed, then chat about this and that and the time passes quickly. Then a shower with water heated by solar panels, and everyone at school and work. On Saturday we cycle a bit 'more to produce enough current to power household appliances for the whole week. It is also half a day to help Abdul, a young Senegalese who is then to lunch with us. The pay as an employee home, and he is happy to have a fixed income in addition to his earnings as a seller of handbags and sunglasses. The pleasure is riding with us, she realizes that is good to her body. We also hope that there are other families that have the same initiative, called around, found many friends in Africa who would be happy to ride a couple of hours a day to supplement their low earnings,
Our electricity bill is a few € every two months, not more than ten. The power company sent an inspector to find out whether and how to steal the power. But this technique is due to report that everything is in order.
and we keep pedaling.
EM
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