Re: GBlist: All ABOARD THE PEDALBUS -WORLDWIDE COLLABORATION

[Debra Lombard <deblombard@swinter.com>]

how you calculated the output of a single person.  we estimated that one person outputs 200 Watts or 1/4 hp, so we figure you may
need over 900 people.
highly unrealistic.
debra lombard

Bagelhole1@aol.com wrote:

> Subj:   All ABOARD THE PEDALBUS -WORLDWIDE COLLABORATION
> Date:   Tuesday, January 26, 1999 10:26:49 AM
>
> Bagelhole1 (http://bagelhole.hypermart.net/), under construction, calls for
> collaborators, globally, to share ideas as to the best ways (design,
> mediums,etc) we can think of to build a bus for about 50 people, that is a
> hybrid, run both by pedal power and electrical (generated by the pedal power
> and the turbine on top), equipped with sail. There would be a driver who
> steers, changes gears, and brakes. Music, perhaps, to inspire the
> pedal/passengers, maybe made from bamboo partially. All passengers ride/pedal
> for free, of course. Electric kicks in, when there are not enough
> pedal/riders.
>
> Every city could have such a bus to bring attention to people to aid in
> soliciting low-tech, homemade style ideas for self-sustainability, thinking in
> terms of small neighborhoods, in mutual co-operation with each other, as a way
> to really kick off community contingency preparation, globally. This needs to
> be done very quickly. So please heed, if you hear the call, this post and come
> up with some good ideas to submit and/or post this as appropriately as you
> can, to widen the scope, please.
>
> Finally, this could be viewed,in addition to the above, as our first real
> exorcise in global collaboration, maybe.
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