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Skülly

A gym carriage is a great idea.

... with loads of spin bikes in there, hooked up to a storage battery. You get discount points from your journey cost for every watt you generate.

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Backstop in reply to @Skülly

A train operates at 25000 watts, a human outputs 400ish, 700 people on a train, as long as everyone takes a turn I say it's feasible

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Nick.Earthloop in reply to @Backstop

A train operates at 25000 watts

Are you sure it wasn't 25 kWh per km, rather than 25 kW average power ?

I found a thing that says a train's CdA is about 2.8m², so that would mean if all 700 passengers are pedalling all the way at 200W, you could eventually get it up to about 95 mph.

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