It'd be like putting a tiny solar panel on your retail consumer grade router, one that degrades very rapidly over time, and generates electricity at a higher cost than to simply buy it (from industrial grade dedicated solar parks), in a world where you can send energy as easily as sending email, or for that matter, bitcoin.

It's ridiculous. I'm curious about the bigger picture because they have a stellar team, backing, board and bank account right now.

"Hang on, I just rode my bike to the office, let me plug it into my parking spot so I can discharge the capacitor and get paid for the ride up here and I'll come up to your office."

We're having fun at this, but I think you may have just found a way to better gamify wellness initiatives...

Bicycle riders only produce a few hundred watts, while an average kilowatt/hr is worth 12 cents.

It's kilowatt-hour, not kilowatt/hour. Multiply, not divide.

It's kilowatt*hour not kilowatt-hour. Multiply, not subtract.

Haha, thought the same.

Exercise bikes that mine bitcoin. Hey Tesla, who needs batteries if you can store energy as monetary value.

As with commodities trading, the actual product has to exist somewhere.

Reminds me of The Calorie Man which is quite good if disturbing.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7805265-the-calorie-man

So where does the energy to move the bike come from?

You mean something like solar panels?

run the excess energy into a bitcoin farm instead of batteries?

Can't solar panel owners sell their excess energy back to the grid for USD?

Seems more cost effective than to buy, run, and cool depreciating mining hardware.

It seems more cost effective to just use batteries