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According to this research paper (pdf), the embodied energy of a 150Wh lead - acid battery (like the one offered with the Windstream pedal power generator) is at least 37,500 Wh, which equals 250 full charges of the battery (more sources: 1/2).

Even if you make your own pedal power generator, the costs add up.

This can be done by building a pedal powered generator from scratch instead of using a road bicycle, and / or by ditching one or several electronic components in the power transmission chain.

These multi-person pedal power generators were pioneered in the 1970s by the Campus Center for Appropriate Technology (CCAT).

If we ignore the embodied energy of other parts than the battery (both training stand and electronics), and take a life expectancy of 4 years for the battery (rather optimistic), a pedalled powered generator would require an embodied energy of 937,500 Wh over the course of 100 years - 6.7 to 22.5 more than a mechanical unit.

If you also factor in the embodied energy of other electronics and parts, the ecological advantage of a pedal powered generator connected to a battery becomes rather doubtful.

One way to solve the large energy losses of pedal power generators is not to produce electricity at all and power devices mechanically, whenever possible.

Not exact matches

So my husband and I built a bicycle with a generator on it that my students pedal to power the classroom.

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