The FREE Electric: BUSTED!
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@@Thunderf00t lol
@@Thunderf00t Have you thought about writing a book about exercise like 5 pages long with 100 empty pages extra? (Of course e book noone likes wasting paper)
@@Thunderf00t Thanks Wahaha!
I smell *Thunderf00t comment collusion* .
This warrants an investigation.
so he took a generator and attached it to a bike. Wow, welcome to the highschool science fair.
So he basically took some water, added caffeine to it and put it in small bottles and sold it for a lot of money. Wow, welcome to the world of billionaires... Where success comes from people being too stupid to realize you're basically a scammer D:
Gilligan's island
@@LordDragox412 to be fair, a very common case is that people are too blind to see their own mistakes. Odds are that he looked at a bicycle and wanted to apply it on a larger scale, which has been done before in ww2.
Next to that, a LOT of innovations are small. I mean, starbucks once decided to use hazelnut instead of cocoa, because in nordic european countries, you have a hazelnut spread to be a lot more common than a chocolate spread while tasting slightly similar but a lot sweeter. Most new meals are simply old meals with something extra. New technology is often existing technology put together slightly differently than people normally do. Large innovations are often so rare that people only see them years after. Touch screens were a massive step in technology, but they existed YEARS before someone encountered a smart way to put them together.
@@LordDragox412 and also added some flavor as a straight caffeine shot tastes like something to make you vomit. (Not that 5-hour Energy tastes much better). 🤢🤮
*middle school*
"It is impossible to hook a generator up to a stationary bike."
- No Scientist Ever
Just impractical for the power output.
Depends on what your power needs are.
@@niklasbergvall9656 Not totally impractical. Back in the early days of 20th century Australia blokes in the outback used pedal powered radio transmitters to stay in contact with the outside world... and this "invention" might still be able to power a satellite phone in an emergency.
antiqueradio.com/traeger_pedal_07-99.html
...Treager's generator was smaller...
@lordchickenhawk, those things are still sold today by different brands as "pedal generators" and deliver about 20W. There are also some generators to attach to a bike that claim to deliver up to 300W. Good enough to even charge a laptop, but if enough sunlight is available a solar system is much more convenient.
The solar charger that came with my Iridium satphone charges it full in one hour on a clear noon sky...or powers it up instantly for use with very little sunlight.
Note to self: When the marketing of something includes "infinite" or "free", it's usually a scam.
my telephoto lens focuses to infinity, and beyond!
@@dispatch-indirect9206 Well I mean solar panels could advertise themselves as "free" energy.
@@bornkinggamer3347 but they can't tho. that would be false advertising since it isn't "free" lol
@JZ's BFF true - you'd be amazed how many people do not understand this!
Always.
Always a scam.
Every single time.
Free electric is achieved by bypassing the meter.
Got it :3
Haha this had me dying.
I don't get it
This just sounds like slavery with extra steps
My IQ is high enough to see what you did there.
Rick and Morty Quote.
@@ronhenneberry1496 Red Dwarf did it first
Is this a Rick & Morty refference?
Rev up the gas
We used to use human mechanical energy in the past....then we found out that by putting the wheel in the river we could have it turn 24/7 instead of, until the human gets tired.
We literally built fucking windmills so that humans wouldn't have to create the grain themselves.
In between, we literally harnessed the power of animals.
@@daszieher I guess fossil fuels still do :)
@@guser436 😃😂
although to be fair, coal and oil mostly come from peat and swampland, so "plants" in largest proportion.
But don't plants "feed" off the sun? 🤔
That makes my diesel car solar powered! 😃
@@daszieher true but still some animal must be in there :D
Humans are solar powered too
When he's making his sales pitch, you can refute every single argument he makes with "... until your legs get tired."
Imagine the gut-wrenching feeling when you see the name of your invention in the title of a Thunderf00t video
and BUSTED :)
I would be glad, a free expert consultation? Dude that's awesome 😁
I don't think that type of person is capable of self-doubt
Nobody should tell this guy, that you can use a waterwheel instead of a human.
He'll probably go nuts on this idea.
Intrinia Studios - Just wait until someone then points out that you don't even need a source of flowing water but that the wind can turn a generator... He'll flip out and "invent" the wind turbine and claim that it will solve the world's energy problems producing free, clean energy forever.
That essentially is "free" electricity. Obviously, it's not actually free, but it is "free" in the sense that once the generator is in place and wired up, you don't have to do anything beyond maintenance.
Or how about some pellets of a mixture of U138 and U135 stuffed into zirconium tubes and inserted into a vat of water? They'd make the water boil, and the steam could be used to run a steam turbine that turns a generator! Wow, what a neat invention I just invented! I think I'll call it a "nuclear power plant"! It generates 100,000,000W of power 24/7 for several years before it needs refueling! Wow, I'm a genius! :::rolls eyes:::
(Of course, if I was a _real_ genius, I'd invent "Mr Fusion". Runs on any fuel, generates 1GW of power, creates no radioactive waste, can't melt down, weighs 12LB, and costs $99.95 at a store near you. But alas, I'm not smart enough to invent that. And neither is Mr Exercycle in this video.)
@@RobbieHatley we can always bury the waste and return it from wence it came. I think you might be on to something!
You all aren't thinking big enough. You have an endless source of free flowing water from your tap at home! Cut your *ENERGY* bill down to zero by hooking your tap up to a generator! Genius!! Pardon me while I go start an energy drink company...
Fun fact: One of the original names was the Electric Chair. They really thought they were onto something original until someone pointed out the execution device.
@Tremo Anathemon Sounds like the plot of a science fiction movie that could be awesome or terrible.
Any link to this? Kinda hard to believe this stupidity.
the plan was to revolutionize the execution industry in the US, making it far cheaper and healthier for those on deathrow as they would excercise and produce their own juice for their executions substituting the costly and less and less accessable lethal injection drug made of barbiturate, paralytic, and potassium solution... alternative realities have confirmed this invention to be used in special car batteries in the "The Ricks Must Be Crazy" Premiere August 2015.. ( RICK&MORTY )
I wonder why this wasn't pursued further. Generate energy for your own execution? I am sure some people would love that...
Theres a video showing how much energy on a bike it takes to toast a piece of bread... It was litteraly a pro olympic cyclist giving everything
It doesn't take that much energy. It takes high power. An olympic cyclist can sustain 800W for about a minute = 48kJ or 400W for about an hour=1440 kJ. An average joe cyclist can do 100W for 8 hours = 2880 kJ.
Also. Toast doesn't fundamentally require much energy to make. Just that toaster was super inefficient. Make a nice insulated box and you can toast bread one 2-3 W.
@Bill Kong Galaxy Brain
I don't know about toast, but cooking an egg with hair blower was in Red dwarf.
Fun fact: the treadmill was originally designed as a sort of human power generation device, at the beginning of the industrial revolution! It was a punishment by all means, prisoners stepping on these machines for 16 hours a day and many died of exhaustion, but it did kept some factories running
"when the scientists say it can't, it's a validation for me IT CAN"
oh basically literally any manager with poor management skill
nekoGryphus What?
@@daytonasayswhat9333 Read the comic called "Dilbert" by Scott Adams to understand nekoGryphus' comment.
Captain Obvious will I go back to being a virgin?
@@daytonasayswhat9333 Depends. Did you lose it in the first place?
Captain Obvious your videos are space exploration and computer software installation. Let’s take a guess who lost their virginity later in life n
My Physics teacher in 5th grade:
"You can't create Energy. You can't destroy Energy. You can Convert Energy."
5th. Grade.
It's why it's called a Constant in equations.
+Dark:
"You can't create Energy. You can't destroy Energy. You can Convert Energy."
==It was the 18xx.
After the work of hundreds of people, measuring as precisely as possible, they came to the conclusion that it is not possible to create/destroy energy and it is not possible to create/destroy matter.
The create/destroy energy concept is expressed in Physics: thermodynamics, law #1.
The create/destroy matter concept is expressed in Chemistry: conservation of mass during chemical reactions. I think it is called Dalton's law of conservation of mass.
The 16xx was the booming years of science and in 18xx, it sky rocketed.
I can create energy with my magic farts. They have the same energy output as 10 gallons of gasoline.
That's in a closed system though. Keep that in mind when making that claim about energy. In an open system, you can easily lose energy to entropy.
Well, that was before Einstein. Sort of. Mass is rest energy. In a chemical or mechanical reaction, energy is conserved. In a nuclear reaction, it is not necessarily conserved, unless one considers matter to be another form of energy. 'A reasonable notion in the post-Einstein world, but not what most people would call conservation of energy. More importantly, however, is the fact energy being conserved does not mean *USABLE* energy is conserved. The Second Law of Thermodynamics prevents any reduction of entropy in a closed system, and virtually every energy conversion system results in an increase in entropy. Any time the entropy of a system increases, the amount of usable energy goes down.
This entire kitchen is powered by a classroom of kids fueled by sugar....
"An expert is someone who knows everything that was."
The ironic thing is that if he did listen to them, he'd learn that this concept has been tried many times before.
“Lisa! In this house we obey the laws of thermodynamics!”
says the idiot that caused a meltdown without any kind of radioactive material
@@aurumvale9908 Homer is many things. You are quite right to say that in general he is not an authority on anything. But that's kind of the joke, that this was an occasion when he managed to say something intelligent and that's why it was funny.
@@aurumvale9908 He also smuggled ruffled chips to the ISS
@@punker4Real Not to mention getting his son a free ride home by pouring a beer on his control panel at the power plant.
He is a scammer betraying his own self ,” we invented a hybrid bycicle in wich you only have to paddle for 1 hour to get free electric energy for 24 hours , this way you will have infinitive energy and you will never run out of energy, no plutonium needed”
HAHAHAHA what a joke,
How can you have infinitive and never run out of energy if you can only have energy for 24 hours,and you need to waste 1 hour out of the 24 hours, that equels 23 hours of freedom, that makes no sense,
Not mention he wants to turn us humans to become part of a energy source generator, and he considers that to make the world a better place that way? Hahaha what a joke,
Not mention we do need energy in the form of oxygen,drink & food before wasting that energy to drive a stupid hybrid bycicle machinr, and since we have to buy all that drink & food, we will not have free energy ,so hahahaha to him, his is lying to his own self 😂😊😂
That matrix scene was a studio change, because they figured people were too dumb to understand a neural network. Originally the machines were using human minds as computer power, meant to boost the speed and power of the main machine CPU. It had to do with the actual matrix, and how the minds inside the matrix were given certain problems to solve, or emotional triggers based on what the machines needed. So if they needed a math problem solved... basically, put a million human minds on the job and it is done in an instant. That sort of thing.
The battery explanation was a late addition and one the wachowskis didn't want to put in the film.
That makes a ton more sense than the battery bull.
Thanks ! That was informative and makes some sense to me as a fan of the movie.
Wow
I always took the battery explanation as a well crafted lie, whether it was made by the machines or Zion leadership, someone didn't want the masses in Zion to know the true nature of the Matrix.
And they needed a human programmer (Nero) to reprogram not only the matrix but themselves if it ever got out of whack. It happened before and it will happen again. Only Nero didn't fold into the predictable pattern, but forced peace & freedom onto both sides. What a great film!
In this house we FOLLOW THE LAWS OF THERMODYNAMICS
Rick: I put a spatially tessellated void inside a modified temporal field until a planet developed intelligent life. I then introduced that life to the wonders of electricity, which they now generate on a global scale. And, you know, some of it goes to power my engine and charge my phone and stuff.
Young lady, in this house we obey the laws of thermodynamics!
Homer!
"so loose some weight"
ITS DRINKING THE WATER!!
@@rogerwilco1777 :
Oh he'll agitate you! Oh boy! He sure will!
What I hate the most is that he calls it his invention. Bicycle powered generators have been around for decades and there are lots of tutorials and instructions around how to build them.
But his has a flywheel! /s
You have to understand.. to a man who comes from a country where even the capital has entire streets designated for public defecation, because plumbing is a mystery, this is an earth-shattering idea. Except then it will put untouchables out of work, so even in Hindutardia, it will never fly.
More like a simple/stupid idea from a century ago
@@duaneallam You know if he added a second flywheel he could use it as a form of transportation .;-)
Actually over 100 years
I've literally seen much simpler versions of these in gyms, where it does actually make some sense. If you're going to work out anyway on a cycle, then why not have it generate some energy while you're at it? It's definitely NOT going to power the whole gym, but it helped save a little lol.
wait really? I have seen ones that have a generator only used to power a little display for the cycle itself, never heard of one that is actually connected to the building. that's pretty awesome
Even better, bike to work. You're saving energy to run a 3-ton carbon farting machine and that actually makes a huge difference.
is impossible to overstate how humble and genuine this guy actually is
Yes, he's enormously proud of his humility. 🤭
For the record, in, "The Matrix", humans were originally used as a neural network. This was changed, because it was believed that people wouldn't be able to understand the concept.
Kisama001 wow... Thats kinda disappointing.
that would've made so much more sense.
@@meinname5788 There was a lot of concepts that were dropped because WB didn't think people would get it. The idea that the matrix was actually layered and the human 'resistance' was still plugged in was one of them
Now they dress like women.
@@keYserSOze2008 That _was_ the plan. But then WB is like 'no'
"Oh boi, this guy is gonna fail so hard when he hits the laws of thermodynamics" sounds like every science-related kickstarter ever
I love how they always set the cooling fluid stream for their mills to high for advertisement shots.
So he's building something that the Centre for Usable Technology have been handing out all over Africa for the last 40 years.
Using a kids playground roundabout to charge the batteries for the village well is a genius piece of design.
If I was setting up a gym I'd be really tempted to run this sort of setup just for the marketing potential.
An expert is someone who is really good at what was. He, on the other hand, is really good at what never will be.
Come to my pollution free, free energy gym and become a copper top.
"Free Electric Gym, powered by your reps"
Incredibly buff Athlete: *struggles to maintain 700W for more than a few minutes*
Manoj: "hold my snake oil."
An average size adult male who is in shape dosent have a problem doing 300 watts for half an hour. This equates to around one cent of power in most places. However, farming human food is so carbon intensive it's roughly equivelant to burning coal for the electricity.
Randy Gareth or a world class cyclist who has specifically trained for hour long efforts can do about 440w for an hour. Source: that’s what Bradley Wiggins did when he broke the hour record. A good amateur can do 200-300w for an hour. If you’re going to do stationary training anyway, some of the resistance units are basically motors which are run in reverse to resist the cyclist. So it might not need much extra equipment to put a usb charge port on it I guess, but for very little actual value of electricity.
@@jimhize ironically my stationary trainer USES power (not a lot, but some for the Bluetooth and the little motor that moves the resistance magnetos). The power I produce is lost as waste heat. Not that the 250-300W that I produce on it would power my house anyway. It wouldn't even power the TV and fan that I use while on the stationary.
burtosis that’s an FTP of at least 285w, which an average untrained person who isn’t a regular cyclist isn’t going to be able to do. In my experience, untrained people will struggle to do half of this.
David Turpin yeah, mine too. Although the Tacx Neo that I use can power itself for some basic features, to get the full computer-controlled resistance it needs to be powered. Running zwift uses extra energy too. In fact that’s something they didn’t consider in this ‘invention’ - most stationary cyclists need some entertainment to combat boredom that will take energy to provide!
*Slaps roof of thermodynamics*
This baby will get you from 0 to 50 with exactly the correct amount of energy it takes to get from 0 to 50
You are assuming 100% efficiency.
hamobu whatever the efficiency is, it would still end up being the correct amount
@@hamobu This is correct no matter the efficiency ;) It doesn't say "5V will get you 5V",
it says "you'll get 5V with what it takes to get 5V".
My grandparents had something like this in their home during World War 2, while under German occupation. In fact, you saw them all over the occupied countries. It was based on a standard bicycle and produced barely power to keep a tiny little lamp glowing.
Thank you so much for the extensive and full blown you do to shed light on "dumb" products and scams. Keep going and good luck.
I’m missing the part where you need his energy drinks to do the 5 hours of cycling, because that is the real plan behind it.
9600GTMAN just the caffeine to stimulate you to burn what’s already there.
JHC OverDrive it’s not like the average person living in a first world country really needs to be intaking MORE energy. Honestly if it wakes me up and encourages me to lose weight as a bonus then sign me up.
@@Vgamer311 yeah the assumption the "busted" rant is based on is that people are eating extra to achieve this, or don't ever choose to exercise anyway. It would be reasonable to slate it as a bad use of resources - for example, compare the impact of sticking the same generators in a river for power, and making normal exercise bikes vs how the creator visualises it being used.
Edit: My message comes across as saying that the original proposition about Free Electric was good - I don't think that either, as the claim was that this is good for the poorest of people, which makes no sense. If anything that makes this video more annoying - the claims themselves are easy to debunk, so thunderf00t didn't need to wander off into the weeds. He went into the fat energy capacity a bit, but by then was ignoring what the product was, so didn't compare with the appropriate alternatives.
@@asharak84 yeah, he could’ve tackled this in a number of ways, but he chose possibly the worst way to do so. Plus, while over-hyped and poorly marketed, I dont think the idea of hooking a generator up to an exercise bike is the worst idea ever, if a bit unoriginal. The marketing should have been “hey, if you’re gonna buy an exercise bike anyway, might as well save a few bucks on your energy bill while you’re at it.”
Still wouldn’t be a miracle product, but it would at least be honest.
Don't forget to squeeze them out using Juicero and mix with Fontus water.
He's actually Rick Sanchez in disguise and we're in the battery verse. It's just slavery with extra steps.
Thanks for the Rick N Morty reference. I was scanning the comments and it snagged my eyes!
😝😝😝
That whole premise didn't make any sense. Why didn't he use their sun to generate his energy, that has much more power than them stepping on a platform.
😂😂😂
God dammit i'm too late
LOVE IT!!!
to be fair this thing would probably be neat to use for exercise while powering a small TV with it or something.
a novelty that might help with motivation
The Matrix should have kept to their original idea using humans brains as neural networks instead of batteries.
According to the sequels it wasnt about the humans being a battery but about the machines having a raison d'être
@@houseis I know how much genuinely intelligent self-aware machines will care about humans - zilch! when did you last take an interest in a slug?
@Deipatrous a slug didn't create humans though. The whole point is their quest for meaning or purpose, so studying humans and delving into our psyche was part of that, they wanted to understand why their creators do what wmthry do
@@DrWhom I mean, it could just be a loophole in Asimov's 3 laws of robotics
These laws were designed specifically to have loopholes. Because the stories need plots.@@ProfAzimov
it takes an olympic level cyclist to toast a piece of bread.
masterofthecontinuum looked that up, found the video and had fun watching. Thanks you :)
Lol i remembered that vid
True
@Daniel Fennec lolol
Most Brits will become olympic level cyclists then.
"As much power as a 125 V battery" huh, measuring power with voltage does not compute
As much power of persuasion!
It's entirely dependent on the resistance of the load. (Including internal resistance of the battery)
JNCressey actually you can’t with a battery, when batteries are used up the potential difference (voltage) decreases. You can’t measure a battery’s power with a voltage, irrelevant of load resistance.
@@olliebaxter2402, okay. It'll decrease over time as it's used up.
Also, resistances will change when components heat up and all that non-'ideal conductor' stuff. And information can't travel faster than light, so effects at one side of the circuit won't happen instantaneously when stuff changes.
Also the internal resistance messes with the calculation. One way the battery may be producing more power, but the internal resistance is taking most of it for heat, and the other way, less power is being produced, but a higher proportion of it is externally useful. So yeah, I imagine it is, as you said, more complex.
@@olliebaxter2402 Power is voltage * current. Current is determined by voltage / resistance. As mentioned already it's a little more complicated than that, but it's not wrong to compare the power capability of batteries by voltage. Just ask any drone racer. Assuming similar resistances a 12V battery is simply incapable of providing the power a 24V battery can. There is a reason the Telsa roadster runs on 350V or something like that, and your cellphone runs on about 4V.
I was just casually watching, as I do... Then I saw that dog running in the drum. Coolest thing I've seen in awhile :)
Ok, legit though, I`d like one of those bikes.
I mean, if I`m gonna do it anyway for health reasons, might as well charge my phone with it XD
Over engineered solar panel
Or, you could just build one using stuff you could get locally... Might even save some money by shopping around for used components, like the bicycle and a junk yard alternator
@@InfernosReaper yep thats all it would take
There are a ton of hand-crankable batteries on Amazon.
As a mechanic with alternators, bikes, and batteries laying around, ... I might make one. Especially after our power went out here in texas. But mainly to run my aquaponics water pump.
'A Guy Named Thunderf00t Debunks Pedal Powered Electrical Device'
Irony :P
Thunderfoot should see this comment
Where's the irony?.
Well played -_-
@David Parry That's not actually irony.
Silamon
-.-
1000 50mah leds? OH MY GOD THIS IS LIKE POWERING AN ENTIRE CITY
OF ANTS
Rodrigues Bender i genuinely laughed
50mAh isn't a power; it's an amount of energy, which would make no sense in this context. So I'm guessing you meant 50mA.
But a 50mA LED would be very dim, about the brightness of a 20W incandescent bulb.
So what I think you REALLY meant was 138mA, the current of a standard USA commercial "60W" equivalent LED lamp, 120VAC(RMS), 138mA(RMS), 9W(av). (Power factor on LED lamps is always bad, about 0.543, due to the "capacitive dropper" circuit used, so actual P=(VI)(pf)=(16.56W)(0.543)=9W.)
What the guy said is that his cordless exercycle (basically a Cybex ArcTrainer 750 rebranded) can power 1050 equivalent lighting watts. So the actual power is ((1050)(9)/60)W = 158W. But due to the bad power factor, that would actually only power about 600 "equivalent lighting watts", or about 10 lamps.
So, he's only claiming to be able to power 10 LED lamps, not 1000, so you're off by a factor of 100.
10 LED lamps are enough to light-up one small apartment, not a city. And that one small apartment would only stay lit while someone is actually pedaling vigorously on the exercycle. And forget about running refrigerators, microwave ovens, air conditioners, etc, no power for those; you only have 158W to work with. To power a single electric bedroom heater, for example, you'd need 10 people cycling vigorously on 10 of these machines, all night long.
the whole 'mAh' is stupid term concocted by mobile battery complex.
The voltage would vary during the usages, so the 'mAh' rating would be inaccurate accordingly.
@@RobbieHatley mA is an unit of electrical current not energy, energy is measured in Joules.
@@teresashinkansen9402 Or watts, because joules is a janky term in its own right.
That little cute device at the end of the video literally left me speechless. Such an amazing thing, and so cheap, and there's a lot of science behind it too. Amazing. It made my jaw drop as to how cool it was. I need one.
Wow! What an amazing invention! It's as if we have never thought about putting a dynamo onto a bicycle to power something like a headlight so we can ride at night before! A wheel generating electricity through physical effort is such a revolutionary idea!
let's be fair, anything that has "free" and "electric" in the name is just snake oil automatically
@Tahir Ahmadov ....what?
No, no, Snake Oil is another product that he sells aside from Five Hour Energy. This thing he shows us here isn't a drink, it's a Free Electric silly :)
@@LordDragox412
Snake Oil is how he lubricates the bike bearings to make them totally frictionless!
i disagree. tap into your neighbor's electricity on the downlow, BOOM! free electricity. where's my nobel prize? 😜👍
@@CoolHardLogic exactly!
you're also supposed to drink the snake oil for extra power
"But wouldn't almost anything make a better battery than a human body? like a potato?....or a battery?"
-Bender
ButterBall well the machines in the matrix didn’t know that.
@@MemeReviewer Well, originally it was planned, that they use humans as calculators, but the studio thought, no one would understand that, so they had to change it to batteries.
Ayumi Kuro oh ok
That's great, what episode was that one from?
@@medexamtoolsdotcom S7 Episode 10. A near-death wish.
"This guy is gonna fail so hard when he meets the laws of thermodynamics" 😂
Please do more busting videos. I watched them all two times over and I need MORE
FFS. This idea was debunked already in high school Physics textbooks.
Well only like 29% of people go to high school in my country
well, it would be genius to apply it in gyms though. A lot of spinning classes that cost electricity rather than giving electricity. A lot of "wasted" potential energy. Just adding a small generator to each machine that doesnt neccesarily require electricity and voila, every single gym on the planet could turn into a small additional power generator.
I think you spelled common sense wrong
@@Predated2 Spinning Bikes do not use electricity.
@@nerhu59 He's talking about that they can be used to generate electricity, not that they use it.
That has already been done:
www.thegreenmicrogym.com/electricity-generating-equipment-2/
So this dude watches Rick and Morty
Bastard you beat me to it
Obviously. You can just sense his IQ of over 200
Are we living in his battery?
It's a Gooble bike.
Protect summer 😂🤣😂
This sounds like the thing you put on bikes to make them have lights when you are riding but more complex than necessary
A great invention is whatever gets a piano to spontaneously play in the background when mentioned.
This one reminds me of my primary school science teacher, who had built the same thing himself, as a demonstrator of power and energy.
The fact he claims that he invented it is absurd.
The bar for claiming an "invention" is low these days.
I invented this "thing", that you can roll around, or you could attach it or more of them onto something that can carry around stuff.
I call it "The motion circle" (trademark pending)
E L O N M U S K
Self-proclaimed inventors are dreamers, not realistic inventors, you know the kind of inventors that actually get recognized.
Well, technically, if it's a different design from something that exists, it's an "invention". And it doesn't have to be all that different to get a patent.
So, every cell tower is dead after a hurricane, but at least you can play Angry Birds.
I ... I don't think he knows how phones work.
oh no.. cell towers have generators attached.... and not the human kind!
(at least not electrically connected...) (at least not electrically connected via wires that is...)
One must have priorities!
@@Joemama555 Yeaah, about that, in my own experience, cell towers died like an hour max after the electricity lines failed, I kinda doubt about those generators, batteries sure.
@@Joemama555 nah, they have regular batteries.
Automatic generators are expensive and modern 4g cell towers have microscopic range so you have to have A LOT of them to cover a territory.
That cool gadget you show at the end.. I was at a music festival a few years and someone handed me a pair of glasses that did very similar things, being a music festival in a neon lit forest I ended up wandering for hours with the glasses on BC it was just so beautiful!!😂
Rick and Morty want their universe in a box idea back.
I'm selling rocks with googly eyes. Hurry, limited edition!
(Please note: googly eyes sold separately )
SOLD! Wait a minute.... Did you invent the eyes?
Pet rocks? Watch out, Elon my try to steal your blatantly stolen idea.
10 66 I'll take 100
Are you patrik?
@@etooamill9528 me?
But thunder foot, what about the breathrian? We could just chain those people to the machines
osamaben81 I second that. If they require no food, make them run the bike for humankind.
Infinite energy forever! OR (more likely) dead even faster than a resting breatharian!.... an even bigger win.
He never mentions how you store this energy in able to use it over the 24 hours.
That's what occured to me. I may be wrong, but he (the con-man I mean) never once mentions a battery.
Actually i think it would make sense in gyms with lots of people exercising. In gym you have: Treadmills, Exercise bikes, Cross trainers, Rowers...And you could also replace weights with generators.
Replacing weights would be hard and a pain in the ass to maintain
It would have been more logical to say "If you're going to use gym equipment, might as well recover some of that power."
Well, that would have been a good advertisement and I think nobody would have said anything about it and even gone along with it, but claiming it was the next big thing when it was literally power crept thousands of years ago is the really stupid part of this all
@@sephikong8323 I mean, thats literally what treadmills used to be.
@@sephikong8323 Yes, exactly. Having a human-powered generator to charge a cell phone in an emergency, or to keep a small light bulb on overnight or to keep a radio working in an emergency is a valid use. But this guy can't help overhyping his product. The energy produced from one of these things will never ever match the energy required to manufacture and ship it. Not even close.
Yup. What i thought. But that guy have to go full megalomaniac and "save the world" with "free electricity". Wonder why i hate marketing guys like old stevie job? This is why.
@@chriswright9096 Hand cracked generators are cheaper, tinier and thus more portable than this anyway
All electricity is free - it just costs the universe a little entropy?!?
Thanks, I'll let my electricity company know.
@@Pining_for_the_fjords "In this TH-cam channel, we will obey the laws of physics!" sayeth the Homer J.
Don't worry the universe blue shifting light will take away some of that energy
You're right, of course, the energy is still there before and after you use it.
@@okrajoe Superintendent Chalmers: _Good lord what is happening in there?_
Principle Skinner: _Aurora Bore-free-energy._
the first thing I remembered when I saw this contraption, was the Video of an Olympic cyclist powering a Toaster. That athlete was basically a mountain of muscles and he was able to power the toaster for one minute and was completely exhausted after that.
3:37 The irony is. I'm literally using that very generator to power my computer to communicate this comment right now.
Planet fitness should replace all their stationary bikes with these and give members the opportunity to earn money selling power to the grid...
Nah, they should just use it to offset their electricity usage. In fact, it they should scavenge ALL the energy from all the fatties that come through the door. EVERY fitness machine in the building could be rigged up somehow. Hell, they should install revolving doors and hook them up to generators, too; that way even the people who come in just to try it out would be paying their way.
@@MrTaxiRob Ooo, I got one. Make all the people walk into the building by going up a set of stairs and standing on a elevator rigged to a pulley system that uses their weight to run a generator on the way down. To leave again, they have to pedal it back to the top.
Yeah you would get like 30cents for 5 hours of peddling
@@hypertronic2559 Hey, if you go for an hour 3-4 days a week, that adds up! You're gonna be there anyway, might as well get a discount on your membership.
@@malkeus6487 one dollar for a month? That does not seam to be a good deal. And ur only paddling then, not using other stuff
To be fair, exercise has health benefits other than weight loss. So if we go with the recommendation by the Department of Health of exercising for 200 minutes each week, then we might as well collect that 100W rather than just let it go.
Also, the writers of The Matrix knew the energy idea was stupid. They wanted it to be that humans were being used for computing power, but the stuido forced them to change it because they wanted to dumb it down for general audiences.
@@profribasmat217, I meant power. The power will be multiplied by the time you exercise for to get the energy.
But okay, it's not worth it. Going off your pricing we get a saving per year of 100watts *(200minutes per week) * 1 year * (1.5 pennies / (1 kilowatthour)) = 26.07 pennies.
Or, just hear me out, you could instead do manual labor quickly to exercise and help clean up your neighborhood. That's a far better use of your time.
The dropped weigh powered light is a much better idea than this stupid bike and a helluva lot less expensive.
Hell, I could build something better than this bike using junk laying around my house, a car alternator, and a cheap inverter from harbor freight for a much lower cost(even if you priced out my freebie material).
In fact, I could buy a new bike, a new alternator, an inverter, a car battery, and everything needed to put them together for less than half the cost of this guy's cheap modern art looking pedal contraption.
@@JNCressey Image what you'd accomplish using that time for literally anything else
@@profribasmat217 Where the hell do you get your electricity? Here in Australia 1 kilowatt-hour is 26 cents, and it's set to keep going up.
EDIT: Nevermind, didn't see the decimal.
At least later on they sort of saved it by essentially putting a lot of doubt whether the Machines even needed the humans... Making it seem like the power aspect is more of an excuse, allowing the viewer to write off the whole "human batteries" as canonically fiction.
Haven't hippies been doing this in the woods with old bicycles parts and car alternators since, like, the 50s?
I saw it in Red Dwarf years ago!
Fun fact: The original script for The Matrix called for humans to be used as a source of processing power, using the millions of humans as a sort of cloud computing network. The higher ups said no because the people might get confused somehow, so they went with the human batteries thing, which presents the idea that they're not actually in the real world, but rather another layer of matrix, since the math doesn't check out.
the maths is fine, it's the physics of the thing.
I left the theatre in utter disgust and disappointment, despite Moss in latex
I am told that an earlier The Matrix script spun it as "the machines used human brains as part of a big processing/simulation network" but it was considered "too complex"
@Honudes Gai You get that from your extensive research of hybrid biological and solid state ensemble computational networks, I'm sure. What if the simulation experience is/is a byproduct of the computation process itself? It's a leap of faith for the sake of art, but science fiction has a tendency to be prescient, and its certainly less of a leap than the battery crap.
It didn't need an explanation. You don't have to explain everything. They are doing it. We don't know why. They must have a reason. It's even worse that their 'explanation' is completely retarded. Still a great movie though. Show not tell fucktards.
Clint Eastwood would go through his scripts and cross out most of the dialogue.
@Honudes Gai The context is pretty important too though, with the heavy buddhist philosophy undertones throughout the movie. The simulation isn't created for us to experience, it's the experience (or computation) that creates the simulation.
The concept is just a big metaphor anyway.
@@Jordan-Ramses small brain ok with less explanations
I heard that originally humans were supposed to be used as a cluster supercomputer but that the studio thought ppl wouldnt understand that so told the wachowski siblings to make humans batteries instead.
Yes, I heard the same thing.
Yeah their original idea made far more senses in terms of thermodynamics and creates less plot holes
But then we'd never get that sweet Duracell product placement money
I'm not sure either idea really improves the realism. The cool part of the Matrix is the CGI and the philosophy anyway. The more they got into the world-building the crappier it got.
@wearealltubes
Way to crap on a classic
"That nothing is real except your own mind?"
uuuhm have you watched the movie? Spoiler alert: There is a mind independent reality outside of the matrix, so no, that's not the philosophy. Perhaps you meant the simulation hypothesis.
It has been a while since I watched the movie, but as far as I remember, the 2nd and 3rd part of the trilogy heavily lean on nihilism.
TH-cam channel Wisecrack took a critical look at the Matrix trilogy and its philosophy not too long ago if you want a summary.
No matter what you say, i would love to work out for 1 hour and get free electricity for 24, please make that device and make it affordable
Well, you can have that today - but the watts you can draw over that 24 hour period is pretty small.
Say you are in great condition and can crank out 400 watts for that full hour, if the system is 100% efficient, you have generated 400 watt-hours of electricity. If commercial electricity is costing $0.15/KWh, you have produced $0.06 worth.
If that 400 watt-hours is stored in a lossless storage device and you want to use it evenly over the 24 hours, you can only draw 16.67 watts. That MIGHT be enough to power a 50 watt equivalent LED light bulb for 24 hours - assuming your power storage device does not suffer from voltage sag and converting the stored DC voltage to AC is 100% efficient.
Assume you have a toaster that consumes 1200 watts. That means you can run that toaster for 20 minutes.
I suspect the food you would have to eat to generate that 400 watt-hours of power would cost far more than the $0.06 retail cost of simply getting from the electrical grid. Also, you have to consider the cost of the fancy bike generator. If it cost you $2000, then you would have to pump for about 4167 eight hour days(365 days/year for almost 11.5 years) just to cover the cost of the generator. At 1 hour/day, you wouldn't recover the cost of the bike in your lifetime.
@@buggsy5 2000 is far too much for a static bike hooked up to an generator with a converter an battery
This would be a good exercise tool to give a mental boost to the user by say charging your phone or tablet, but that's really about it.
"Never creates any pollution."
Just wait till you need you need to use the bathroom.
TM18271998 hahah true
Also make sure to go in the dark so you dont waste all the effort
😂methane....
Just set it up on San Francisco streets - nobody would notice extra 'pollution'
Nah, using bathroom by itself is not creating pollution. Only sweage treatment can, but if you shit and pee in the woods it doesn't negatively impact the nature.
Thunderfoot was completely right to focus on CO2 emissions.
Fricking laws of thermodynamics always get in the way of cool inventions
It's fine. This idea was never cool to begin with.
The laws of thermodynamics are respectable and everything, but here the queen's law reigns supreme.
It's why the villains in movies always have superpowerful gadgets no one else does - they have no respect for the law.
Also, this: th-cam.com/video/3PzY_ro13UE/w-d-xo.html
I proclaim we repeal and replace
Actually the US Army had power generating bicycles during WWII to provide power for radio communications before the generators, et al were brought in. It was an "emergency" source that could be used for a short time to establish communications. Not needed anymore as generators are really small and indeed smaller than the "power generating bicycles". I always wanted to get one to use for off the grid amateur radio contests. However, hard to get in surplus and even the chinese army version cost more than a decent generator.
When attending a college science class for middle school class trip (I assume to inspire us to attend college) back in the 90's. Professor told us that riding a bicycle in the city produces more emissions (CO2) than a four cylinder car going up hill.
"OK grandma, my shift on the generator is done. Your turn. What?! Too tired?! GET ON THE BIKE OR YOU'RE OUT ON THE STREET!"
So, we should convert gyms into power plants? If they are going to generate energy, might as well put it to work.
The amount of electricity someone on a bike could generate is extremely tiny. Haven't watched this whole video yet but my bullshit alarm went off immediately when the guy started saying you could get a day's worth of electricity from 1 hour of pedaling.
I'm pretty sure everyone at some point has the idea to make electricity this way, and it can be done, but it's something like a person pedaling at full force is enough to power a light bulb and that's it. You can't power your entire home with your body. A gym full of people pedaling might produce enough to power 1 house, but the equipment costs money and it's certainly way cheaper to just use standard means of producing power.
At the gym you may not put out MUCH power, but if you are going to exercise anyways, why not get some of the energy you put in back?
@@jamesmeno2235 Because the equipment cannot be manufactured and maintained for free. The cost of manufacturing and repairing the turbines and batteries, both in terms of money and materials would very likely be (much) greater than the cost of just burning the fuel to make up the difference. A person cycling all day might power a phone for the day. Meanwhile a gallon of gas can power a phone for 20 years. There's a reason the industrial revolution happened and we stopped chopping our wood and plowing our fields by hand (even before this we used horses). Humans just don't put out anywhere near as much power as modern methods.
@Johnfuse resistance goes up with load - not really a significant factor since it'd have to be regulated anyway
That’s actually a good idea. Free energy!
He most likely watched Rick and Morty episode "The Ricks Must Be Crazy" and thought that's a brilliant idea! 😂
23:28 could be explained away if the Kessel Run is about finding the shortest path.
What's this? a DOUBLE DEBUNK?!
Achievement unlocked : "Accidentally debunk an energy drink"
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a zero-calorie energy drink
and people buy that
and he got rich selling that
Half a century ago, they were using stationary bikes to make electricity on cartoons like Looney Toons and Tom & Jerry.
This guy is taking that concept and trying to make himself out to be some kind of messiah.
The army surplus store near me used to display and sell old generator bikes. They looked like they were from ww2 or maybe korea, definitely older than vietnam era. Yeah this guy is not breaking any new ground.
@MichaelKingsfordGray It was an amazing invention for the time, was used to educate generations of kids. school by radio.
That is not the point nor the intention of the so called invention.
Apparently all of you have missed the part where the guy is specifically pointing out the fact that this is for POOR areas on the globe where you can't have a commercial large scale energy production plant.
@@rogerwilco1777 Those were originally hand-crank generators, reconfigured into bikes (because leg muscles are stronger and have better endurance). The military went with hand cranks (rather than foot cranks) because hand-cranked devices are smaller and lighter, and radio conversations tend to be short.
This video brought back some memories, i remember when i was like 6 or 7 years old and my dad bought a bicycle for my brother that had a dynamo that converted mechanical energy from the tires to power a small headlight.
I snuck out at night to pedal really fast to see how bright the light could get... Such a weird memory.
Plot twist, this guy is the Rick Sanchez God of our dimension.
That just sounds like slavery...with extra...steps...🤔
it was the first thing i thought. he gets it.
They did this in The Black Mirror ...
Wouldn't a bioreactor of some sort be more efficient? Just to skip humans entirely and feed your food to the machine if that's the source you absolutely want your energy to come from...
@@FairyRat Yes. It would be hard to think of a more inefficient way. Maybe burning diamonds in liquid oxygen?
@@Arghly5078 It's called oil... oil is just decayed and refined biomatter.
... a peddle power generator is not new... they also made peddle grinders, drills and jigsaws... Sears catalog 1908...
Yeah, I was going to say the same. They are usually a lot more compact too.
a road cyclist here. my FTP is even lower than one freaking 300Wp solar panel. i can sell you one panel and it will be cheaper than that static bike. and you can leave the solar panel on your roof while you do other thing. sound smart eh?
Meanwhile, I've just acquired the rights to the Sun. I expect each adult on Earth to send me £500 for the use of my sunlight.
Man: I made free electricity
Thermodynamics:am I a joke to you?
CommanderTaco more like
Thermodynamics:no you moron you just caused thousands of people to break their knees because they’re even more moronic than you
@@feritperliare2890 Do you even meme?
ScarletFlames1 yes but I think my version is better than saying something everyone does and is a really dumb meme
This is stupid in countries where food is scarce, you are bacically convering food to electricity using labour. The "inventor probably watched an episode 2 of Black mirror, and thought I could sell that to poor ppl.
Because the problem in developing countries is they don't have enough manual labor in thier lives. Meanwhile 1000W solar panels are cheap and after manufacturing really don't produce any CO2. If well cared for they can be a low impact way to generate power.
there is a video about a professional biker powers a toaster for couple of minutes and the bread got slightly toasted
They had a show on the BBC where 70 bikers tried to power an average british household for a day. They were struggling ... hard ....
Robert Förstemann is his Name and his Legs are ... well, let´s say slightly above Average.
Cyclist, the word is cyclist.
Biker is a person that rides motorcycles.
@@miyu4043 actually they did fine until the end of the day when the family was cooking and using devices etc and they'd been doing it for a while but the point is valid that a cyclist cannot power long term. The video evan leo is talking about had a pro cyclist pushing 700w for about 90 seconds which is very high output but he did toast it properly to be fair.
Markus_B well, leg days skip him
To be fair it is not a stupid invention, not for green power and world changing, but as a gimmic excersice machine that also charges your phone and is kind of fun motivation to work out. I would imagine buying one if not too expensive.
Agreed, but it's not a new invention. When I was a kid and I visited my grandmother, I had to ride this rusted-up adult bicycle with a dynamo light, that was attached to the front wheel (not sure if it's called "dynamo light" in English). Me pedaling the bike made the light power on. I've also seen exercise bikes before, hooked up to a generator, so when they exercised on it, they produced some power at the same time. I don't see what the discovery/invention is :l
Was at a museum keeping military gear from the cold war. They had one of these kind of things as a backup to power the at the time very bulky communications equipment. The guide told even the most fit people struggled to keep the radio powered for long.
I mean a bike like generation set up
He hooked an alternator up to a bike? Bravo
For a low low cost of £1999.99
@@ikmalizzatjohari6475 for a similar price, you can buy a moped. It also includes a motor with your alternator and a second wheel.
I have one on my bicycle. Helps keep my lamp on so that I can see
Does this even really need debunked? It's literally a bicycle with a fancy gearbox/differential or whatever attached to a generator. I fail to see anything original
I also don't see what the invention here is. Nothing new, nothing that hasn't been done already. I even doubt the efficiency was improved in any way.
It's a flywheel, I think.
they could at least hook up gym bikes to a capacitor
flywheel is here to stabilize the pedaling speed, or at least this is what people in the past used it for.
Came here to say that.
3:17 it's crazy how many dumb ideas instantly get wrecked by thermodynamics 😂
The road to BUSTED by Thunderf00t is paved with "good intentioned" "inventions"
This is a brilliant comment, scientists say it is impossible to not be.
Good intentions? Lol yes lets "supply" all these "free electric" bikes to overpopulated West Africa, Indian, Bangladesh, and Colombia; I AM SURE NO ONE WILL EVER ABUSE THE PEOPLE LIVING THERE WITH FREE POWER EVER!
Well Matrix was meant to have us used as neural network, and machines using as for extra computing power, but producers wanted it simplified, for audience to get it....
@InSomnia DrEvil In the original script for the Matrix trilogy, the computers were using people to do calculations, but the producers were retarded and re-wrote it so they were harvesting energy from us instead.
Computers using humans for bitcoin mining
Was about to comment this, honestly makes the films better.
That actually makes much more sense... Damn producers
Yeah, there was a Star Trek NG episode like that, Worf was switched at an automated space station where they stole crew members to use them as part of the neural net that kept the station going. They figured out that Worf's dead body was a fake, so they went back and freed all the people, it was a kinda boring episode.
You can keep your cell-phone active during a blackout or after a disaster? Umm... Are you going to power the cell towers too?
Cell towers have a 48h battery built-in (at least in my country) so yeah - cell service would still be available for a while even if you lose mains power.
They are powered by solar freaking roadways.
These machines obviously comes with one... It can break the laws of thermodynamics, a cell tower is nothing in comparison.
@Jason Poole There are emergency stations that should still run a week or two after that. Additionally, satellite phones should be workable for even longer I would assume?
The idea is that high school biking teams will swarm the bottom of the cell towers and start pedaling.
The whole idea sounds like a bloody primary school kid’s way of solving the energy crisis