[*BCM*] Fwd: [phonography] Cycling recordists

[rob levy]

That's really interesting, I'll have to read that!  As for lights
powered by humans, I stumbled on this while looking up ways to
generate power.    http://www.freelights.co.uk/   it seems to be a
nice way to make your bike visible without making it more difficult to
ride (friction and so on).  The key is the magnet tumbles past one of
the magnets on the spokes and thereby creates electrical current.  No
physical turbine gets cranked, which seems amazing to me not being
much of an electrician.

On 12/21/05, turtle <turtle at zworg.com> wrote:
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> Boston Critical Mass <list at bostoncriticalmass.org> wrote:
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> > Interesting idea maybe to revive once computing technology becomes more
> > waterproof? I think those new hand-cranked laptops (announced by MIT
> > recently) would work well with this...
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> > I'm imagining a nomadic
> > post-civilization culture of cyclists revolutionaries organizing for
> > survival via decentralized peer-to-peer networks accross the world...
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> Have you heard of the book Bicyclopoils by the guy who does the anti-car
> comic strip Roadkill Bill?  It's all about a post petroleum world where
> bicycles rule.  Check it out here:
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> http://www.roadkillbill.com/!Bicyclopolis.html
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> -Turtle
> who's recently been trying to figure out how to mount a dynamo (wind-up)
> powered flashlight on her bike, for worry-free biking at night.
>
> "One day we must come to see that peace is not merely a distant goal we
> seek, but that it is a means by which we arrive at that goal.  We must
> pursue peaceful ends through peaceful means." - Martin Luther King Jr.
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