Revealed PH hamsters.

[Shaw Tarse]

On BBC1.... At the moment what powers Piston Heads servers!

[Salgar]

This is such a st program. What the fk does anything they're doing have to do with anything else they're doing. I realise it's trying to have 'interesting' ways of telling people about energy. But jesus. 'Don't leave that on standby, it takes up 3 cyclist pedalling at 80 rpm using friction dynamos. OR 20p/day IN A POWERPLANT WHERE WE SPLIT ATOMS INSTEAD OF EMPLOYING CYCLISTS.

[FourWheelDrift]

I wondered where Dallas the dimwit had disappeared to.

[JD]

Sooo..

To solve the energy problem globally, we obviously need to improve the efficiency of the cyclo-generators

[juice]

Shaw Tarse said:

On BBC1.... At the moment what powers Piston Heads servers!

Boiled Piss ?

[robinhood21]

I think it to be a great idea! Fill the prisons with peddle'ists. Oh

[erdnase]

Can't we just replace the cyclists with engines to power the tv?

[theironduke]

Call me a cynic but it all sounds a bit Socialist to me...although being BBC that's hardly surprising.

In Soviet Union bike cycles you!

[Parsnip]

I only switched on halfway through, so missed out on a lot of the details.

Depends where they got the cyclists from - 30 of me could put out about 33kW peak, or hold about 9kW for an hour - factoring in losses in the generators etc. and you still wouldn't be getting much out.

was a cool experiment, not neccisarrily from the greenie point of view, but it highlighted how much power actually gets used in day to day life.

If you asked someone with no knowledge of the human body, or sports science how many 100W bulbs they could light up if they were on a bike, connected to them, I would put money on them vastly overestimating.

[Bunglist]

I said about this idea years ago, although I said that the dole blaggers of society in the UK should have to peddle there way to recieving there dole cheques, also it would aid part of the obesity problem in the UK.

Killing 2 birds with one stone.