I kinda wish we had like a weird swear jar except its a little power bank thats connected to your stationary bike, elliptical, rowing machine, etc. of your choice and we could top up our houses drain on the grid.
This weird science if done in many homes could have a significant impact on the overall energy consumption and help reduce the demand on the grid.
I have absolutely no idea the numbers but I gotta imagine a 40min intense ride or row could generate enough power to like use a toaster oven or power the dishwasher.
My toaster is 4 slots, and is 1560w. So if you max it out, and say cook your toast for 5 minutes, 1/12 of an hour. That would need 130wh of energy. So if it’s ther “average” of .1kwh from a pedal generator, 1 hour and 20 minutes roughly for your 4 slices of partly burnt toast.
A toaster is just resisters, so using their waste heat to cook food. Incredibly inefficient.
An average dishwasher is 1200w if a load takes an hour, 1.2wh of work is needed. It’s less total wattage than the toaster, but uses more total energy to do its cycle of work.
My large microwave is 1500w, but average is around 1000w, so can do the same math for cooking your leftovers.
Energy is incredibly easy to calculate as Wattage, which is just a function of volts and amps. A higher amp but lower voltage appliance, will use the same watts in the end if all things are 1:1.
But that dishwasher needs those total W the entire time, just like the toaster. So it only needs 12 people to operate.
I kinda wish we had like a weird swear jar except its a little power bank thats connected to your stationary bike, elliptical, rowing machine, etc. of your choice and we could top up our houses drain on the grid.
This weird science if done in many homes could have a significant impact on the overall energy consumption and help reduce the demand on the grid.
I have absolutely no idea the numbers but I gotta imagine a 40min intense ride or row could generate enough power to like use a toaster oven or power the dishwasher.
You mean like a battery?
Your username and my comment. Yes, like a battery idk why I said swear jar or power bank. LOL
My toaster is 4 slots, and is 1560w. So if you max it out, and say cook your toast for 5 minutes, 1/12 of an hour. That would need 130wh of energy. So if it’s ther “average” of .1kwh from a pedal generator, 1 hour and 20 minutes roughly for your 4 slices of partly burnt toast.
Damn that’s great analysis! I love how you did that. Thank you!
Definitely its a storage solution, but I am shocked how much power that consumes.
A toaster is just resisters, so using their waste heat to cook food. Incredibly inefficient.
An average dishwasher is 1200w if a load takes an hour, 1.2wh of work is needed. It’s less total wattage than the toaster, but uses more total energy to do its cycle of work.
My large microwave is 1500w, but average is around 1000w, so can do the same math for cooking your leftovers.
Energy is incredibly easy to calculate as Wattage, which is just a function of volts and amps. A higher amp but lower voltage appliance, will use the same watts in the end if all things are 1:1.
But that dishwasher needs those total W the entire time, just like the toaster. So it only needs 12 people to operate.