{"id":55,"date":"2009-02-10T10:56:41","date_gmt":"2009-02-10T17:56:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oregonstate.edu\/sustainability\/blog\/?p=55"},"modified":"2009-02-10T10:56:41","modified_gmt":"2009-02-10T17:56:41","slug":"osu-gets-human-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/2009\/02\/10\/osu-gets-human-power\/","title":{"rendered":"OSU gets human power"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For years, people have been asking me and others at OSU why we don&#8217;t harness all that energy from people working out on stationary bikes and other exercise equipment.\u00a0 There were some very good technical reasons, including a gap in technology available to convert this intermittent energy into the alternating current that buildings use.\u00a0 One arrangement I cobbled together with a staff member from Dixon Rec a couple years ago was hard to pedal and we couldn&#8217;t adjust the resistance level to match the kind of workout flexibility modern machines have.<\/p>\n<p>This has all changed. Twenty-two elliptical units at Dixon now have the capability to create useful electricity, rather than extra heat.<\/p>\n<p>At noon on Wednesday, February 18, OSU will host a kickoff event to show off our new installation of power harnessing equipment at Dixon. It will include a tour of the installation and a demonstration of how it works.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll post more details here as they are released in the next two days or so.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For years, people have been asking me and others at OSU why we don&#8217;t harness all that energy from people working out on stationary bikes and other exercise equipment.\u00a0 There were some very good technical reasons, including a gap in technology available to convert this intermittent energy into the alternating current that buildings use.\u00a0 One [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":784,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1292103],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/784"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}