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  • Inhabitat & Hybrid Squared: Ingenious Energy-Generating Bike Rental System

    The core of Hybrid2 is Chen's regenerative braking system for bikes, dubbed "Hybrake", which allows riders to generate and store energy from braking and normal biking in an ultracapacitor. In Chen's vision, the more energy a bicyclist generates, the more monetary credit they... more

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  • Rated by nwraider on Sep 10, 10:26pm

    For so long, we've been held hostage to the same type of thinking that threatens to derail health care. Big oil has lead us frighteningly astray, convincing us that solar power and other sharp thinking can not fill our needs. The truth is we're ingenious and fully capable of thinking our way out of any problem that faces us. The real problem is defeating the corporat interests that seek, via increadible sums of money, to keep that profit flowing. In short, America is of by and for the corporation, until we take it back. WAKE UP! STAND UP! Fight the epic levels of FUD from oil companies, insurance companies and big pharma. They are not who the country was formed for. But we have allowed they personanhood and thus speech, and ours is being drowned out.

  • Reviewed by n0y0x on Sep 10, 2:44pm

    From the page: "bad design that wonâ€t work. this energy, with the exception of braking energy, isnâ€t free. riding these bikes will be much harder if they are going to generate any significant energy. the average human power output is around 150 watts, for the cost of adding the generator and the ultracapcitor banks to the bikes, plus the power electronics to transfer the stored energy to the grid, you could buy a solar panel and grid tie inverter that produce more power and operates whenever there is sunlight."

  • Reviewed by nexon on Aug 15, 5:01pm

    Ridiculous. Bikes are useful because they efficiently use human power to move a human from one spot to another. Mostly you try to NOT use the brakes, since it wastes the energy you just put into the system. Ideally, if you were to capture the braking energy, you would use it to bring the bike/human back up to cruising speed. So what is the math here? A quick Google suggests that an electric trolley consumes about 1.5 KWH/mile. If you had 10 bicyclists on stationary bicycles, pedaling for an hour, you would have enough energy to move the trolley one mile. If you just collect braking energy, you will capture much less than that. How much energy is generated during braking? Over what period of time is that braking energy generated? A few seconds? I would imagine hundreds or thousands of 'pedaling-hours' to generate the energy to move the trolley one mile. Bad idea.

  • Rated by Christovir on Aug 15, 2:24pm

    Great idea. It is unlikely that the energy produced from the bike will make a significant contribution towards the buses' needs, but the idea of it, and the fare-incentive program will hopefully make the bike sharing scheme much more successful, diverting people from using cars, which is where you will find the real environmental savings.

  • Rated by chummers on Jul 26, 11:43am

    lets keep up the good work. thinking thinking

  • Rated by thetechguru2006 on Jul 23, 11:43am

    The core of Hybrid2 is Chen's regenerative braking system for bikes, dubbed "Hybrake", which allows riders to generate and store energy from braking and normal biking in an ultracapacitor.

  • Rated by TheTokerJoker on Jul 22, 12:57pm

    that's a great idea, and there will be less cars!

  • Rated by Insomniak on Jul 21, 9:33pm

    Cool concept.

  • Rated by VengeanceNow on Jul 21, 11:28am

    Hybrid Squared: Ingenious Energy-Generating Bike Rental System