Human Powered Home – 24 October 2009, London

Button pressing age gave rise to obesity. More and more people work in sedentary office jobs. People use artificial spaces to exercise, to step-up but not get higher, to run and not get anywhere. What are we doing with our physicality and strength?

Are we willing to sacrifice breathing clean air, balance of our ecosystem and future of our children for convenience? for luxury of pressing buttons on electrical appliances? for having it all so easy and instant because we’re just too busy? Magnificent Revolution is not ready for environmental suicide and this is our response……..

We invite you all to our Human Powered Home exhibition at The Bigger Picture: Festival of Interdependence this coming Saturday 24th of October 09 from 10:30 till 19:30 at the Bargehouse, South Bank. You know you want a ride a bicycle that chops grass….come down and have a go on a true chopper and other human powered delights that we’ve built!

The Bigger Picture: Festival of Interdependence is a free interactive, living exhibition put together by nef (the new economics foundation)
Programme attached

See you there,

Magnificent Revolution

Can You Bike Your Way To Power Small Appliances?

Great post by Green Life at http://agreenliving.net/can-you-bike-your-way-to-power-small-appliances/

Magnificent Revolution at Le Cinema de Broadwater

Update 26 September 2008: some photos from the event!

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http://www.magnificentrevolution.org/2008/09/320/

Autumn is knocking on the door and it’s time for some good films. Over the summer we powered plenty of music, and it’s nice to see the cinema getting back on track! On the 25th of September, Magnificent Revolution is putting on a Pedal Powered Cinema in cooperation with the Haringey Independent Cinema and Broadwater Community Centre. The cinema will be outside in the 1930s shell amphitheater next to the skate park at the Lordship Recreation Ground (near Adams Rd entrance, N17) . If weather fails us, then we’ll relocate to the Broadwater Farm Community Centre. Screening will start at 8pm and we’re going to show Bellevile Randesvouz.

Poster download (PDF).

BAKA BEYOND – Live & Pedal-Powered

http://web.ukonline.co.uk/baka/shop/pages/albums/livepp.htm

“This is the first bicycle-powered digital recording ever (as far as we know). Recorded directly to DAT from the mixing desk, powered by the Rinky Dink, this CD captures the clarity and spirit of the music as it was performed in the summer of 1995.”

Thanks to Paul Conneally for mentioning this!

Revolutionary Cycle cinema – video by Simon Mullen

See NRG unveiled at the IOCT, 23 September 2008, 11.30am

See NRG unveiled at the IOCT, Tues 23 September 2008

About NRG

It’s 2010 and you have been appointed to lead the new World Energy Directorate, with the power to control international spending and research on energy sources and production. Your decisions will influence the life of billions of humans, countless species and the Earth as a whole. How will your choices change all our lives during the planet’s next forty years of industrial development?

Part environmental game, part multimedia artwork, NRG (short for En-er-gy) is self-sustaining, people-powered installation. No previous knowledge about energy issues is assumed or required, but NRG is intended to stimulate thought and discussion about energy consumption, its links to global warming and the need for the development of lifestyle alternatives.

NRG was created as part of the first Digital Writer in Residence position at the Institute of Creative Technologies (IOCT), De Montfort University, Leicester, UK. It is funded by a Grant for the Arts from Arts Council England.

Tuesday, September 23, 2008 at 11:30 AM (GMT)

Location:
Institute of Creative Technologies
De Montfort University
The Gateway
Leicester, Leicestershire LE1 9BH
United Kingdom

Click for Details and Registration Information

More Pedal-A-Watt

Video of the Pedal-A-Watt in action from the Econvergence website:

Click here to download the original video from the Econvergence website (.avi, 7.6MB).

Bicycle Film Festival Keeps Rolling

Article about 8th annual international Bicycle Film Festival (BFF) in Utne Reader by Julie Hanus – http://www.utne.com/2008-07-18/Arts/Bicycle-Film-Festival-Thats-a-Wrap.aspx

Self-Propelled Cinema

Article by by Julie Hanus in the Utne Reader -

http://www.utne.com/2008-07-01/Arts/Self-Propelled-Cinema.aspx

More on the Pedal-A-Watt

From the manual, which I have received today…

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The Pedal-A-Watt, creates 200 watts of power. If you pedal for 2 hours, then you have created 400 watt-hours ( 200 watts x 2 hours) of power.

This 400 watt-hours would power a 100 watt light bulb for 4 hours, a 200 watt
large screen TV for 2 hours and so on.

If I am pedaling and creating 200 watts of power and I keep pedaling for 2 hours, I create 200 Watt-Hours, or:

200 Watts x 2 Hours = 400 Watt-Hours

Now, with 400 Watt-Hours stored in the battery, I can power:

A 400 watt TV for 1 hour (400 Watts x 1 hour = 400 Watt-Hours)
A 200 Watt TV for 2 hours (200 Watts x 2 hours = 400 Watt-Hours)
A 20 Watt laptop PC for 20 hours (20 Watt x 20 hours = 400 Watt-Hours)
A 15 Watt fluorescent bulb for almost 27 hours (15 Watts x 26 hours = 400 Watt-Hours)

Power Consumption of Typical Appliances:

Small TV – 100 watts
Large TV – 200 watts
Laptop PC – 10 watts
Desktop PC – 75 watts
Stereo – 20 watts
Charging a cellphone – 5 watts
Hi Effic Desk lamp – 15 watts
Refrigerator – 700 watts
Dishwasher – 350 watts
Dryer – 400 watts

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Projectors, I think, are in the region of 200-300 watts. So a projector, stereo and laptop might be too much for one person to generate, unless I can find a relatively low power projector.