Bicycle Power – How many Watts can you produce?


Clothes slow Lance down

 

The Tour de France is in its final week and while I cheer Lance Armstrong to a victory (hopefully) I enjoy watching the coverage and seeing the cyclist’s wattage as they race away from the peloton or climb the Alps. By understanding how much power a person can produce, … continue reading

What is a kWh? (part 2)


In part 1, we went over the very basics of the kWh, but in part 2 we’ll dig down a little deeper.

It’s hard for many people to understand why you need to multiply Watts (instantaneous value of power) by a unit of time (in our case our unit of  time is … continue reading