MIT Cycling Innovate or Die Contest Entry

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MIT Cycling uses bicycles to power fusion research on supercomputers.

Channel: Science & Technology
Uploaded: December 14, 2007 at 6:57 pm
Author: ilanalbrito

Length: 00:01:59
Rating: 3.81
Views: 43837

Tags: innovate or die innovateordie contest MIT cycling supercomputers fusion tokomak plasma

Video Comments:
bobnash79 (January 28, 2008 at 3:53 am)
I dont'see the point in it. They are going on their bikes to power a supercomputer....so what? Why? They didn't invent anything special..in my opinion. I expected something better from you guys considering all the money your university invested in labs and computers....
skier210is (January 29, 2008 at 5:41 am)
dumb shit, it's just a demonstration
gennkkii (February 1, 2008 at 2:11 pm)
no it's some crap attached to, no, meshed onto a bicycle - for a press shoot. Innovation? Novelty.
Fuel100 (January 20, 2008 at 12:24 am)
Bicycles are the most efficent mode of transport there is. You are not very bright to call it inefficient human energy.
maximusben1 (January 19, 2008 at 6:35 am)
the best students at mit, are the foreigns one...
bot51993 (June 18, 2008 at 8:00 am)
true espically jananese because their contry is probably the most high tech country i've been to
edvoj (January 19, 2008 at 5:11 am)
Its not the gimmick of powering computers with inefficient human "energy" that alughable its trusting
computers to give analytic answers!
mastashaker916 (January 19, 2008 at 12:00 am)
You don't need to be aero when you're standing still.
atreyu558855 (January 18, 2008 at 8:26 am)
i like the idea of a bike generator. but it is like trying to connect a battery to a motor who is attached to a generator that is wired to the battery. lets say you pedal for the energy of one pizza. its gonna take more than just one pizza to get that energy back. so in short terms, you pedal your ass off and get 15minutes of electricity, but that pizza takes 20 minutes, catch my drift?
kodeshian (January 18, 2008 at 6:42 am)
Eh, not impressed.