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Now theres an idea for all these 3rd worlders put them on a giant bicycling machine to generate cheap power for the rest of us. A bicycle built for a thousand.

Reminds me of Soylent Green where the old man who lives with Charlton Hestons character has to use a bicycle to generate enough power to keep the 1 light bulb in the apartment going. After the Eco Nazis shut down all the power plants they will force everyone to do it.

That guy standing there is the epitome of the elite professor type I saw all over while living in the San Francisco area for a decade. The superiority of these people is what is most amazing.

Instead of helping them build a fuel cell, this racist leftist would rather they take part in his little idea of social engineering: hook the black guys up to some pedals. Maybe hooking them up to mule harnesses is his next plan.

This guy needs to be attacked and tied up by these Haitians who have more pressing needs than pedaling this moron's bicyle generator. Talk about a slap in the face to these guys who are probably not the total fools this elitist believes them to be.

Then they can pay him 25 cents an hour and see how much that helps with his Subaru and Birkenstock bills. Or better yet, "Dissigno" - if there is more than one employee - should be taking care of Haiti's power needs.

They really believe that the sun shines out of their butts while the rest of us knuckle-dragging republicans can only drool in response.

Does anyone else see expressions of contempt on the faces of the Haitians looking at "Father Superior" as he condescendingy grins down at them?

Official Carbon Advisor? Director of Greening?
This level of self-parody could only exist in one place: the Democratic Convention

You pretty well nailed it Air2air.

A few questions:

Would these people be allowed to build themselves a windmill instead of pedaling? Or is that somehow a crime against...wind? Or would it just defeat the purpose of subjugating them?

Does this brilliant professor propose to use this himself? Will it be for anyone in this country? Or only for Haitians?

If a Haitian moves to the US will he still have to use this? If an American moves to Haiti, will he have to use this?

I just want to be sure I understand the type of discrimination that's going on here, who is allowed to have a power plant and who isn't? Is it based on skin color, nationality, or both?

And let's not forget the best question of all:

If it takes 6 hours to charge a 12 volt battery, how long does Al Gore have to pedal to run his mansion?

The answer? Zero, he'll just hire a bunch of Haitians to pedal for him.

It takes around 600 calories per hour to do recumbent-bike style aerobic exercise

It thus takes around 3,600 calories of energy (i.e. "food") to power that stupid light bulb.

If 3,600 cals of food costs more than $1.50 then the bicycle results in a net negative wage per hour.

I have a package of pasta here which cost $1.80 and has 1,600 cals worth of food in it. I will assume this is, roughly speaking, the cheapest source of calories available. That is around $4.00 for 3,600 calories.

So one could conclude that the Haitains have to PAY an extra net $2.50 to use the LED lights rather than getting the kerosene lamps.

I wonder if there'd be a good black market business opportunity in back-channeling the kerosene lamps to the Haitians, since it should be worth, say, $2.00 to them to not have to buy extra food to be able to pedal the bikes.

One of these things would be fine as a backup generator in a SHTF situation where you have lots of food and equipment stockpiled in anticipation of a disaster and intend it for very short term and limited use.
Using one as a primary power source in a place where people literally eat mud pies to make up for a shortfall in available food is madness.

Using one as a primary power source in a place where people literally eat mud pies to make up for a shortfall in available food is madness.

In large part because, as anyone with a high-school understanding of the 2nd law of thermodynamics would understand, but apparently not these moonbats, it takes more energy to ride a bike than is produced. It's just, I don't know, a fundamental law of the universe or something. If the goal is to lose weight, it works like a charm. If the goal is to generate power, it makes no sense. It's racism in the name of environmentalism, nothing more or less.

This thing may have a profitable application - hook up the generators to yuppie exercise gadgets.

I'll open an exercise club/power station. Charge vain douchebags to work out on the equipment, and then sell them the electricity they generate for their hybrids.

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I like your idea, they may fall for it!

Remember what we were told for generations?
"In the future, machines will do the work of man more efficently than he can do himself! This will lead to more leasure time, where man will tackle more intellectual pursuits!"
Not if the moonbats have anything to say about it!

Moonbats: perpetuating SLAVERY since the Glorious Peoples' 1917 Revolution!

"1.5-watt LED light"? I think that's about as bright as a ZIPPO LIGHTER!

VH, thanks for the pingback. I have noticed several attempts by the greenies to make people pedal for their power. they make them pedal for power to keep their refrigerators cold in Africa so they can keep their HIV drugs cold.

they make them pedal to power the stupid OLPC laptops they are trying to foist on the world's needy.

Yet, no one ever considers a large hamster cage that can hold a goat, pig or some other type of animal to make the necessary electricity. No, it must be human powered. Madness.

I see the guy pedaling on the recumbent bike is laughing, perhaps he has another plan in mind: to hook-up the asininely arrogant "Professor Greenster" by his balls to the device and start cranking. How many calories does a scream contain? I would not call it torture either, but surly it would be a profitable local entertainment.

Dirt,
He's laughing at professor Dipshit because he just said "Imagine the millions of dollars the Holy UN will give us for this idea!" and the guy laughed thinking, "To Hell with these bicycles that go nowhere, I'm buying AK47s and RPGs with those UN millions you wimpy ass white boy!"

NudeGayWhalesForJesus you hit the point there, why haven't environmentalists thought of windmills or even animal driven power generators if they want to stop the use of kerosene.

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How many illegal mexicans pedaling how many of those contraptions would it take to electrify the fence on the border??? Arizona sheriff Joe Arpaio might be interested in buying a few - if they come in pink.

I don't suppose they could just supply folks with rechargeable solar lights; like the ones we use for accent lighting here? Beats pedaling a bike for six hours.

As a greedy capitalist, I investigated the possibility of selling carbon credits. I plan to do some tree planting anyway. I thought someone might actually pay me to do it. When I did a websearch, I quickly learned that carbon offsets are being used for tree planting etc. in third world countries. My guess is that some middlemen are pocketing millions while they hire peons to plant trees at 10 cents an hour -far from any possible U.S. oversight. The trees, of course, will die. No one will have any stake in their continued survival.
This whole alternative energy thing the Dems are pushing is going to be the same sort of boondoggle. Michigan's second term DEMOCRATIC Guv. Granholm (Michigan unemployment rate is now 8.5%) is all over this thing.
A new world is coming. Get on the government gravy train or it will run you over.

In addition to the comments MEGA made regarding the true cost of this pedal power, you have to account for the guy's time on the bike. 6 hours wasted when he could have been productive. More lost wages. Stupid liberal swine!