Pedal Power! How to Build a Bike Generator. Hey, DIY Cyclists: Bring your bike indoors and generate electricity while you ride. By Rachel Z. Arndt Published: Mar 25, 2014 2:30 AM EDT.

If you pedal for two hours then you should produce around 400 watt-hours of power. That's enough to power a 200 watt television for two hours, or a 100 watt light bulb for four hours.

When you have a solar-powered web server, where do you go next for a source of power? Instead of lazily mooching off the sun, you can use your muscle with a bike generator. [Ed note: The site is ru… ...

While you probably won’t produce enough electricity to power your entire house, pedal-powered generators can play a small but useful role in some homes. My neighbor Linda Archibald has an off ...

The company will donate 1 generator for every 10 purchases to someone who needs it in the developing world. Power is often unreliable in developing countries, and 1.5 billion people do not have ...

The way the Free Drive system works is with a power generator mounted within the bottom bracket. Sensors and controllers turn your legs' kinetic energy into electricity which then powers the motor ...

Cobb is no stranger to pedal-powered projects as you might recall his role as an organizer of the Disaster Relief Trials or how he hooked up pedal-powered generators for Dakota Access Pipeline ...

After charging my Tesla with a wind turbine and solar panels, I wanted to push things even further—so I built a DIY pedal-powered generator using a bicycle. Can my own legs generate enough ...