That's only 2.4 percent of the energy your house sucks up each month via the lights, the dishwasher, running the AC and playing video games on your PS4 (like Deus Ex: Mankind Divided).īiking, full time, every day, no weekends, for four weeks gets you to just a few percent of your monthly energy use. Note that I'm not worrying about the efficiency in the electrical systems involved, which would drop the number closer to 16 kWh. So if you pedaled eight hours every day for 30 days (no weekends off), then doing the math, you'd generate 24 kilowatt-hours (kWh) of energy. That's the same energy-per-time used by a 100-watt lightbulb. Pedaling a bike at a reasonable pace generates about 100 watts of power. So - to Booky McReaderpants' question - could you generate that much power all by yourself on stationary bike? uses about 1,000 kilowatt-hours of energy in a month. And the short answer comes from just running the numbers.Ī typical house in the U.S. It's an interesting issue about energy and the modern world. An NPR listener (with what may be the best Twitter handle ever - Booky McReaderpants) inquired whether a home can be powered by bicycle-powered generator.
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