whisky-dave wrote
Dave Liquorice wrote
Brian Gaff wrote

Somehow I feel this would be rather inefficient from the
energy point of view as presumably feeding the prisoners
would take more energy than could be generated.

But aren't you going to feed them anyway?

You'd have to feed them more.

Nope, they just wouldnt get as obese when they are actually
doing something instead of sitting around on their lard arses.

Such atheliets have specail diets too.

Not in prison they dont unless they pay for that themselves.

UK Prison population approx 85,000, a resonably
fit person pedling at a rate they can sustain ought
to be able to produce about 100 W. So 8.5 MW .

Were did you get that figure I heard 80w average for an hour.

but with eating and sleeping and an 8 hour shift pattern only 1/3 of
that, at very best, would be avialable. Then there would be "un-fit"
for what ever reason perhaps you might get 25%? or about 2 MW?

I'd suggest we make it an olympic event why waste money on a
velodrome when all you really need is a bike stand and a watt meter.
Our team GB would also be doing something useful while
training/practicing.

No point, they will all be dying of Zika.

Although I'm not sure providing a certain Mr Armstrong or
others with free drugs would make it economically viable.