Generation of Electricity Using Human Power

Abstract

In today’s modern time, the society or the people are much aware for their daily demands or needs, most people have a wish for a luxurious life like; switch or push a button and operate all appliances like cell phones, computers, televisions, heated water; lights, etc. These components will not work if the power is no longer available for use. Around 70% populations living in the world have no access to electricity that is an estimated 1.4 Billion people with no electricity. At present scenario power crisis are not be getting better. The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) stated in their International Energy Outlook Report for 2010 that the world energy consumption will increase by 49 percent, or 1.4 percent per year, from 495 quadrillion Btu in 2007 to 739 quadrillion Btu by 2035. In previous, researchers presented Weber and Dearbom bicycle drive system, Schwaller a bicycle lighting system, Banfield Hicks a generator mounted within the tread portion of a pedal of a bicycle, Ramos Lucatero an apparatus for producing and storing electrical energy includes a conventional bicycle having a plurality of gear ratios and a generator, Doug Lunde a system and apparatus for capturing electricity consisting of a Wheel and a fixed conducting rod, Megalingam presents methods in generating electricity by pedaling a bicycle and Kumar and Khemraj energy generation and storage using bicycle pedal system. This paper basically focuses on power generation especially within rural areas where excess to stabilize grids is limited due to distance and the cost of extending the grid too high. The main aim of this paper is to design and implement a bicycle power generation with photovoltaic solar system for home inverters mainly villages, small town and cities.