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  • From: "Lawrence F. London, Jr." <lflj@intrex.net>
  • To: permaculture <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [permaculture] Great pedal power video on YouTube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EN6iqicgaXI
  • Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 19:24:07 -0500



API for Pedal Power
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EN6iqicgaXI
Video for innovation contest sponsored by Google and Specialized.

The device is a standard indoor bicycle trainer resistance unit modified with the addition of a pulley to the flywheel, and with replacement by the mag unit with a second pulley. The two belt-driven pulleys power either a laundry spinner for water extraction or an electric generator.

Proposal: tweak existing trainer designs by (1) putting a V-belt groove in the flywheel edge (2) designing toggle to lock out resistance (less)

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connected to recycled modified washing machine to spin dry clothes - could
also work
as a big salad spinner for market farmers - alternatively, reconfigured to
generate electricity

another possibility:
build a small windmill and connect the bicycle to that, add a small solar
panel and storage batteries
use the power to automate valve adjustment in timed cycles on zoned arrays of
micro spray or drip irrigation systems
on a market farm - low volume irrigation to heavily mulched crops in raised beds - no spray to evaporate - water conserved in high OM soils and layers of mulch - also use the system to pump irrigation water from storage tanks or earthen impoundments to crops or to gravity flow storage units




  • [permaculture] Great pedal power video on YouTube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EN6iqicgaXI, Lawrence F. London, Jr., 01/23/2008

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