Yeah my point was more that because a toaster uses 700 watts it's much harder to do that then say power something that uses 100W for a way longer period of time. He could have powered a 100W light bulb for 2 hours easy and generated .2 KWh and still been mostly fine after he was done. But this is basically sprinting up a hill so he it wears him out much worse.
The BBC (I think) did a thing years ago to see if a local cycling team could power a house. They set them up in the big garage of a house and put them all on trainers hooked to the house electrics, circulating fresh riders in as necessary.
Apparently it went pretty well, until the family decided to make coffee; it took about four cyclists just to power the coffeemaker. And then, even worse, they left the pot on to keep it hot. It wasn't too long before the power consumed was hard for them to keep up with. Hours later they opened the doors and the family were horrified to see the whole bunch drenched in sweat and just wrecked with exhaustion, like they'd just done a century. They were pretty apologetic about leaving the coffee pot on, and said they'd definitely look at things like that differently going forward.
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u/rob132 Jun 24 '24
Here's an Olympic cyclist trying to toast a piece of bread with just his output.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4O5voOCqAQ