Generating All Our Electricity From Bike Power | Shut It Off ASAP

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We are off the grid and learning to live sustainably. This time we’re trying to generate electricity by harnessing anaerobic mud and peeing on it. The things you do to get your phone charged! It’s part of asapSCIENCE’s brand new series with YouTube Originals designed to help us all meet our sustainability goals and to combat Climate Change.

0:00 Intro
1:03 Today’s Project: Electricity
4:43 Digging For Bacteria
6:23 The Bike Generator
7:29 Urine Charging
10:08 Checking The Builds
13:59 Updating The Builds
15:57 The Results

[ravenghoul]

I love the idea of biking for an hour a day to bring electric to the grid, it promotes healthy living as could help lower energy costs, you could probably even set it up with kids bikes

[jaredhill]

I'm so glad you guys mentioned nuclear power as a critical part of electrical power generation. Nuclear energy releases about a million times more energy per reaction than chemical reactions in fossil fuel plants. This means a million times less waste and none of it goes into the atmosphere or environment.

[ZaneofAustin]

yall are the first people that have brought bioenergy to my attention.
i think it's a great idea and if you had wired a usb to a power bank i believe you would have been able to charge a phone, it was a great experiment and using our own ... excess is fantastic effciency.

[osmia]

As a kid, i too, really wanted a bike set up in the living room to power the TV for electricity and then we could all get exercise while watching our favorite TV shows. I'm so glad to see you guys try it and how well it worked :-)

[youtubelu]

I know the bikes are not very efficient at generating electricity, but a government program that offers reduced-cost exercise bikes (hooked to the grid) could be a multifaceted approach that 1. reduces peak demand as people go to the gym at peak hours 2. encourages fitness, especially in places like the US where obesity is expensive economically 3. makes the technology more visible and encourages competition/progress

[JeniJustJeni]

Greg: Imagine we found...
Mitch: A terrifying animal?
Greg: Or treasure.

Such a beautiful snapshot of their brains.

[BeAWritter]

I would be all up for a cycling desk chair. I can picture myself pedalling for hours to charge everything around the house. Mixes my love for cycling and my desk job in a wonderful way.

[gussjohnson]

I'm a wind turbine technician✊ I'm with the movement

[hustler]

What can I say now? I love everything about Greg... The way be makes everything sound so fun and enjoyable is all I am livin for...🥰 Love you Greg.

[williamhadley]

You're missing a possible yet more conventional approach. You had a cord of wood stacked behind you, I'm guessing for heat and or cooking? Run a coil of pipe into heat source to scavenge heat from that. Then use that steam to turn a generator. Bonus is in addition to electric you also gain a ready source of hot water if you utilize a cooling tank. 😎

[VanessaE]

The trick with the fuel cells is that, like batteries, you can also hook them up in sets, in a series-parallel configuration to boost both the current and the voltage. Set up 15-20 fuel cells wired in series on their own, and a separate group of 15-20 more in series on their own, each producing 5v. Then, connect their final outputs in parallel to the load. You'll get 5v at twice the current, approximately. Gang-up as many groups as needed to get the current high enough to charge the phone.

[robynhinds]

As a multi-tasker, I love making energy from biking

[mariahelen]

"What's the hottest way to hold a shovel"- I love Greg so much

[wildshadowstar]

The bike as a source of power is great, in theory, but have to remember that it takes energy to generate that energy. Sure, you could power, say a light bulb all night or charge a cell phone on maybe a few hours of peddling, but that time takes away from gathering (harvesting) food and other chores around the your home. Sometimes the peddling will take away from another vital system.

[littleowl]

They could do this with gym bikes maybe? Think of how much electricity could be generated.

[DeAtHaToMiC]

I'm personally more in favour of moving to nuclear power NOW, and then adding green power when we have developed easier and more economical ways of storing the power green power creates.

[poojabeautynstyle]

Those high resistance wires are the biggest problem

[irushasansuka]

I feel guilty watching these videos for free. They are so high quality.

[CeNTTTTT]

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[chloedegurechaff]

It would have been nice to see y’all try running half the fuel cells in series, then in parallel. Best of both worlds