Bike power (Re: solar power)

[Robin Paulson]

On 11/02/2008, Schmidt András <asch at freemail.hu> wrote:
> Today we were talking about new generation of portable personal
> computers (yes, that is OpenMoko :-) with friends. Our idea was to use
> it as cyclocomputer (That idea has already appeared on the wiki or in
> the list somewhere). We were wondering whether it would be possible to
> charge the phone using a dynamo (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamo).
> The dynamo uses the energy of the woman/man who rides the bike. It would

while we're going down that route, this looks a fab idea. virtually
free energy* for charging stuff:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/02/08/knee_generator_phone_charger_pacemaker_thingy/

needs some work on the weight side, but nevertheless a good idea

* all applicable laws of physics complied with