date-created: '2008-06-12'
date-updated: '2026-01-08'
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title: 'CCAT pedal jack herer'
description: 'Bart Orlando built his first pedal powered electric generator in 1989 while traveling through New Mexico with the Global Walk For A Livable World. (PHOTO of the Global Walk arriving in New Mexico). It consisted of an exercise bike and a belt driven car alternator. While at the Santa Fe Renewable Energy Fair, Bart met Windy Dankoff who donated a permanent magnet dc generator and explained how it was more suited for pedal power application because it had a much lower rpm rating then the alternator. Windy further explained that alternators were less efficient than permanent magnet generators because a significant portion of the electricity generated by the alternator was used to power an electromagnetic coil within the alternator.'
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    - 'human power'
    - 'pedal power'
    - 'Electricity generation'
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    affliation: 'Cal Poly Humboldt'
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