This is an industrial designed exercise bike from Lithuania that can store 2KWh of electricity generated by your own exercise.
The electricity can then be used for loads of stuff - it has a bunch of DC outputs, like USB-C (up to 60W) and USB-A, and AC outputs (can output up to 2KW - enough for an oven!)
It can also be fed from a solar panel, or the mains.
It’s about 3K EUR, so not much more than a high end Peloton , but obvs serving a very different market…
@mrchrisadams so this kinda stuff is the reason 'bookmarks' in mastodon were invented, I absolutely neeeed this! :drgn_sparkle: imagine combining it with a panel and being completely selfsufficient out in the wild, and also just being able to actually work for your cake as a workout and all that, but for that I first have to save up the price of a decent second hand car :laughcry: maybe I'll try build something similar with the old exercise bike I have and a car alternator :dragn_thinkflare:
@Julianoe I can’t tell whether your’re agreeing with me or disagreeing, lol. :-)
I think if I could use the bike as a bike sometimes, and other times attach it to a trainer which houses all of the electricity-generating stuff, that’d make the bike more versatile without making it more complicated.
@stevenray I was agreeing. A generator is a relatively simple thing, and so is a bike. Combine the two by hooking them up and you get a new tool made of two things you can maintain and repair, or repair for a cheap price.
Use a "bike-generator-battery" and if something break you loose it and will be hard to repair.
I think what you refer to exists.
@Edent@mrchrisadams though I am wondering how the effort differs is you are trying to convert human power to electricity as opposed to resistance just for the sake of exercise (still a lot of effort)
@otfrom@Edent@mrchrisadams I think the average figure is around 3 w/kg/hour, so a 70kg adult could charge this battery in around ten hours of cycling. Give or take
Hope I didn't get the decimal point in the wrong place
@dan@Edent@mrchrisadams I suppose what it is really a solar battery that you can also charge with your exercise so that the energy there isn't just wasted. So it is more about eliminating waste than being a human powered battery
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