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Old 25th June 2008, 10:45
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Looks very confused at first.

Mr Anguilar is incredible optimistic in thinking riders can produce that sort of power. Maybe he's thinking of teams with each member doing a few minutes, or maybe he just doesn't understand the limitations.

Bike based pedal machines for various functions like wood cutting, making "smoothies", threshing etc are very common in parts of South America in particular and for generating occasionally. Solar's can't be lashed up locally, but in Mr Anguilar's case where he's wishing to buy, advising him to consider solar + battery at least for the laptop and lighting is probably best.

I don't know of anyone in Britain making a pedalled generator, but I'm sure he'll find someone locally who can lash up a belt driven truck alternator to a bicycle drive.
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