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This is an industrial designed exercise bike from Lithuania that can store 2KWh of electricity generated by your own exercise.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago (2 children)

2kwH is worth about $0.18 here. I'd have to charge it ~19,500 times to offset the cost in electricity.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago

So only about 30 years of constant pedaling.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

It's not about saving money. It's about using the energy that would otherwise not be used, and incentivizing exercise. If I could keep my phone charged from exercising, that would be cool. But yeah the price point is quite high.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Most people could probably never even break even in the cost of energy that it takes to produce one of these things.