Human power idea #2

[tmpcbtc]

Ok, so here is a futher idea on human power.

If you get a large turbine and make a large spoked wheel that people can walk around and push, could this produce enough electricity to be worth it?

The math seems simple. Take how much electricity is generated by the turbine in one revolution, then see how many revolutions can be induced by the larger wheel in one hour, so then you have electric output per time.

If you built a building to house this in and put up advertisements, people could come in and push the wheel for minimum wage per hour and get exersize to boot.

[tmpcbtc]

Ok, if someone has some figures on this, I would greatly appreciate it.

I got a reply in another post that a simple bicycle generator can generate 200W in 45 minutes.
That's 1 person.

Say you had 5 people with 5 bikes, that's 1 Kilowatt in 45 minutes.

If you take my idea above, with a big turbine like those in the Hoover dam, for instance, say you could generate 1 Megawatt per hour.

So you sell 1,000,000 watts to the grid at $.01 per watt (which I think is the going price?).

You pay 100 people turning the wheel $10/hour.

That's $10000 dollars in, $1000 out. A HUGE profit. Why hasn't anybody done this?

EDIT: Ok, so I looked up the price for Kilowatt/hour, say $.10 is average (can be as much as $.12 in California) so that's $.0001 per watt. Even with that price, (keeping things just as cheap as they are now) You would still break exactly even, which is enough to put all of the oil companies and nuclear power plants out of business) And that's assuming you could only make 1 Megawatt per hour. If you could make 2 Megawatts per hour, that would be a 100% profit which is as much as any retail store makes.

[ResinRat2]

Convince Health Clubs to do it. They already have the stationary bikes and treadmills and weight machines there. Work out a way to hook a generator to each one that channels the power produced to a power storage system (batteries) that can be used for lighting, etc.

Let's take all the excess FAT we greedy, wasteful humans are carrying and put it to good use. LOL!!!

[tmpcbtc]

Yes, I've always thought gyms were the most backward idea society ever came up with...So you have to pay someone to expend your energy? I guess it's similar to college, but you don't risk getting skin diseases (in college)

[Creativity]

and put there in a gym a big adverisement : "Come and work out for the green planet!".  with this green energy the gym could supply some buildings in neighbourhood,excercising people would pay appropierately less for using of the gym.Gym would still have the same profit because of selling the elecricity and would have more clients becouse of lover prices and nice marketing and clients would feel better when "helping the planet"