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Title: 60 Minutes on this bicycle can power your home for 24 hours
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True Activist.com
URL Source: http://www.trueactivist.com/60-minu ... -power-your-home-for-24-hours/
Published: Nov 10, 2015
Author: Amanda Froelich
Post Date: 2015-11-11 16:35:44 by Operation 40
Keywords: energy
Views: 1800
Comments: 1
Would you exercise for an hour every day if the workout powered your home for twenty-four hours? People often complain about the high costs of energy and the fact that they “never have time to workout.” This invention certainly solves both conundrums. And, most importantly, this free power invention has the potential to lift the 1.3 billion people who presently live without electricity out of poverty. As Manoj Bhargava, the founder of the Free Electric hybrid bike, shares in the video above, it is possible to generate electricity at home while simply doing a daily workout routine. When an individual pedals the bike, the action drives a flywheel, which turns a generator and charges a battery. This means from just one hour of pedaling, a rural household can be supplied with energy for 24 hours. The billionaire and his team developed the bicycle to take advantage of mechanical energy created by humans to solve one of the world’s most pervasive problems. “Everything requires energy. Energy is the great equaliser,” says Bhargava, adding that over half of the world’s population have no access to electricity or access to electricity for two or three hours per day. Having access to clean, free energy will enable poverty-stricken communities to not only light their homes but to connect to the internet and get educated. Bhargava says the reason the majority of those who are poor stay poor is because they have no power. He aims to fix this with the free energy bicycle. One bicycle could potentially provide a small village with electricity if each household spends on hour per day pedaling the bike. In developed nations, the bike could also be utilized to cut energy costs and remedy the obesity crisis. The bicycle is also a clean way to generate power. As Bhargava says himself, if half of the world uses a Free Electric bike, half of the world would be using eco-friendly energy. Manoj’s plan is to distribute 10,000 of the bicycles in India next year. In addition, he has pledged 90% of his wealth to charity and research. What are your thoughts on this amazing invention? Comment below and share this good news! This article (60 Minutes On This Bicycle Can Power Your Home For 24 Hours!) is free and open source. You have permission to republish this article under a Creative Commons license with attribution to the author and TrueActivist.com 
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#1. To: Operation 40 (#0)
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Well it isn't as though a bicycle powered generator hasn't been around for a long time it is just that someone has had to see a business opportunity in it. While he is doing this for the unerprivileged he might research absorption refrigeration and find another underutilised principle to improve the lives of many. In western countries we could have those receiving unemployment benefits pedal an hour a day, this would give them incentive to find employment The reason these things are not done as we think big not small, we think how to save labour not utilise it, and once these people have power and learn that vast generators can do what they do for little cost the invention will have a short life
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