The show we worked on for the BBC Bang Goes The Theory, the ‘Human Power Station’ is featured in this months Focus magazine. The article asks ‘Could I generate enough pedal-power to run my own home?’. It’s a great question that took months of our time in research, design and testing to work out! Eventually, we figured that the average home would require about and average of 4KwH each day with peak power at around 12Kw i.e. if someone put the kettle on while someone else was in the shower! So we built 80 bicycle generators to handle the peak load! It was an amazing experience for us and we hope you enjoy it too. Anyway, look out for the show on the 6th December on BBC1.
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It was me and my family in the house – I really wish we had sussed out what was going on as we could have had some fun with the cyclists. That said, we were quite wasteful with the electricity we used and the poor cyclists looked knackered!
Kind regards
Andy Collins
The BBC website is showing that the programme is on Thursday 3rd December, 8pm BBC1.
I meant to include the link to the BBC information…
http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/proginfo/tv/2009/wk48/thu.shtml