Thread hijack:  Regenerating electric powered bike...

  Yesterday while riding up my local hillclimb bicycle training route I saw
a recumbent bike rider ahead of me..Usually, recumbent bikes are not fast
uphill.  This one, however, stayed out ahead of me until I gave a pretty big
effort and drew to with a few hundred meters, where I noticed...him
coasting...not pedaling.  I looked at my GPS computer and saw that yes,
ideed, we were still climbing at almost 5% gradient and yet this guy was not
pedaling...I finally got within shouting distance and asked him if he had a
motor on it or someting...Caught up later (at the top of the climb) and
chatted a bit...It was a Canadian built bike with a rechargable battery and
a hub motor in the rear wheel.  It had the capacity to 'reverse' the motor
into a generator on the downhill sections thereby re-charging the
batteries...He said it was his first ride on it but they claimed a couple of
hours at 20mph without depleting the charge on flat gournd.  Kinda like a
human powered Priius, I guess.

  Don Hanson

On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 9:27 AM, John Rodgers <inua@charter.net> wrote:

> I visited a locomotive museum in Calera, AL and saw a steam powered rail
> yard engine built before 1950 that did not generate it's own steam. It
> had a high pressure steam vessel which was filled will high pressure
> steam daily from a steam generating plant. On that steam charge it could
> run 1/2 to 3/4 of a day before having to be recharged. Similar in
> principle to a compressed air powered vehicle. The point here is that
> the principle of compressed steam or air works for driving a vehicle and
> the source does not have to be on board the engine itself. Fueling time
> is another matter. But this proves the point
>
> John Rodgers
> 88 GL Driver
>
>  Roger Whittaker wrote:
>
>> dear pisser mobile
>>
>> there is a link on that page taking clickers to a popular Mechanics site
>> where compressed air powered vehicles is the discussion...
>> the image shows 2003 as the date on the concept drawing
>> the article says 2009-2010 ... delivery
>> yours
>>
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 10:50 PM, John Rodgers <inua@charter.net> wrote:
>>
>>
>> This just amazes me. If you own a cow, you have got it made!!!
>>>
>>> Why didn't someone think of it before. It took some serious thinking
>>> outside the box to come up with this one, but it makes a lot of sense
>>> and the technology is relatively simple. It produces raw hydrogen that
>>> can be burned, and storage is simple. Fuel cells as we currently know
>>> them are not required. No high pressure super cold vessels required for
>>> storage either.
>>>
>>> This was developed at Ohio University so it's not some strange idea
>>> dreamed up in some strange land - it came from good old USA ingenuity.
>>>
>>> For more details visit here
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2009/07/28/your-car-and-home-could-soon-be-powered-by-your-urine.aspx
>>>
>>> Or;
>>>
>>> Google for "Pee for Fuel" - all kinds of articles will pop up.
>>>
>>> John Rodgers
>>> 88 GL Driver
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> roger w
>> >From Proverbs:
>> Under three things the earth trembles, under four it cannot bear up: a
>> servant who becomes king ...
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