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large bicycle flywheel 150 watt average | 28 comments (28 topical, editorial)
Re: large bicycle flywheel 150 watt average (3.00 / 0) (#18)
by troy on Thu May 26th, 2005 at 06:07:30 PM MST
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If you can erase a monthly electric bill of ~800kwh by peddling a generator, with or without a flywheel, with only your muscle power, you need to be a professional cyclist.  After you win the Tour de France the third time, you can buy all the electricity you want from your promo money, or even better, all the renewable/alternative energy gear you want.

Seriously, having built a pedal driven custom made hand wound permanent magnet alternator myself, I can state with pretty good certainty that you'd do extremely well to put 100 watts into the utility system after you acount for losses.  50 watts or less would be more realistic.  A flywheel of any kind will not change that number appreciably.

By the way, the economics of your scheme don't work any better than the physics.  A typical grid tie inverter, by itself without the installation or the permits or the other bits and baubles will generally cost a couple grand at least.  Cheapie MSW inverters CANNOT hook up to the grid without very bad things happening.

Good luck and have fun!

troy



large bicycle flywheel 150 watt average | 28 comments (28 topical, 0 editorial)

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