Re: Bike power (Re: solar power)

2008-02-11 Thread Oliver Uvman
I haven't read the rest of this discussion, but a human body in starvation will first of all burn muscle for energy, and after that it will start burning fat. The starvation response in the body starts setting in a few hours after you ate last time, which is why bodybuilders eat about 6 times a

Re: Bike power (Re: solar power)

2008-02-11 Thread Marcel
Sounds logically. ironySo this would be the perfect diet (suicide...) device, just keep hangin around without eating anything and you will get thinner and thinner.../irony But it might work if the transition between ATP and DC works somehow effectively... Worth an experiment :D Marcel Am

Re: Bike power (Re: solar power)

2008-02-11 Thread Schmidt András
Marcel wrote: But you would really have to keep an eye on the overall ATP level, if it goes too low, there might something terrible happen... What does a body behave like on really low energy (ATP) levels? I am not a human body expert but my guess is: You get hungry and also your reserves

Re: Bike power (Re: solar power)

2008-02-11 Thread Marcel
Am Montag 11 Februar 2008 01:04:34 schrieb Schmidt András: fun I have another futuristic idea :-). It has no name yet... It is a chemical power generator that generates DC using ATP from blood (the power source of the muscles). Installing this device in our body would equip us with some plugs

Re: Bike power (Re: solar power)

2008-02-10 Thread joerg
Am Mo 11. Februar 2008 schrieb Schmidt András: Today we were talking about new generation of portable personal computers (yes, that is OpenMoko :-) with friends. Our idea was to use it as cyclocomputer (That idea has already appeared on the wiki or in the list somewhere). We were wondering

Re: Bike power (Re: solar power)

2008-02-10 Thread Robin Paulson
On 11/02/2008, Schmidt András [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Today we were talking about new generation of portable personal computers (yes, that is OpenMoko :-) with friends. Our idea was to use it as cyclocomputer (That idea has already appeared on the wiki or in the list somewhere). We were

Bike power (Re: solar power)

2008-02-10 Thread Schmidt András
Today we were talking about new generation of portable personal computers (yes, that is OpenMoko :-) with friends. Our idea was to use it as cyclocomputer (That idea has already appeared on the wiki or in the list somewhere). We were wondering whether it would be possible to charge the phone

Re: Bike power (Re: solar power)

2008-02-10 Thread Denis
I have a sort of it on my bike. My dynamo gives 6W @ 12V, which is exactly 500mA that Neo needs for fast charging. I use a standard car charger and a four transistors-converter to direct current with it. I don't have a Neo yet, but my phone does charge. The problem is you hardly would ride more

Re: Bike power (Re: solar power)

2008-02-10 Thread Robin Paulson
On 11/02/2008, Denis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a sort of it on my bike. My dynamo gives 6W @ 12V, which is exactly 500mA that Neo needs for fast charging. I use a standard car charger and a four transistors-converter to direct current with it. I don't have a Neo yet, but my phone does