Mind Blowing Facts about your Carbon Footprint: Fact #4
A cyclist will put out roughly 100 watts of power when riding at a vigorous pace (in this case, watts are not being used to describe electricity, but power in general). If we attached a generator to their bicycle, the electricity created by our cyclist would be sufficient to light a single 100 watt bulb. Over the course of an hour, the amount of energy consumed by that bulb (or...