Now that Bike could generate your needed electricity

Millions of people around the world are without access to electricity at any given time – but the man behind 5-Hour Energy drinks claims to have found the answer.

The ‘Free Electric’ solution from Billions in Change uses a simple stationary bike to generate 24 hours of electricity, and it’s backed by Living Essentials CEO Manoj Bhargava.

The bike requires just one hour of pedalling to produce a whole day’s worth of electricity, and the CEO and philanthropist is calling it ‘the cheapest, most practical way’ to create electricity around the world.

The Free Electric solution is based on human mechanical energy, harnessed through a simple stationary bike.

Homes in much of the world have electricity for just a few hours a day, if at all, but the Free Electric solution aims to change this.

Even highly developed areas sometimes face crisis when electricity becomes suddenly unavailable, during natural disasters or blackouts.

With no connection to ‘the grid,’ this bike can provide electricity anywhere, as long there’s someone there to peddle it.

‘Human mechanical energy is so amazing – why can’t we use that to create energy?’ Bhargava asks in the video.

When a person peddles, the wheel on the bicycle will drive a flywheel, which turns a generator.
This will charge a battery, providing enough electricity for 24 hours after just an hour of peddling.
The mechanism is made with regular bike parts, so it can easily be fixed, according to Fox News.
India will be the first country to try this solution, and a pilot project will begin with 25 bikes next month surrounding Lucknow, where Bhargava was born, Amethi and Raebareli in the north Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, Fox writes.

By the third quarter of this year, the philanthropist aims to see 10,000 bikes in operation.
Depending on income levels, the price will vary dramatically – Bhargava says it will go from free to $250, and ‘fancier’ versions down the line could even climb to $1500 in wealthy locations.
Critics have argued that impoverished communities are more in need of grid-based power, rather than off-the-grid solutions, but Bhargava tells Fox that ‘Grid-based power isn’t a solution for people who are poor.’

By putting electricity in the hands of those who are without it, Bhargava says impoverished people will be able to elevate their situations.

‘The real thing is to get the poor out of poverty, and one of the basics is energy,’ Bhargava says in the video.

‘The poor half stay the poor half because they have no power, they have no energy. That’s one of the most fundamental things.’

Billions in Change also has proposed solutions for drought, health, and energy limitations.

Source: Daily Mail