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Cake day: August 9th, 2023

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  • Imagine it like this, you have two glasses of water, labeled “speed” and “chemical.” You can only transfer water between glasses. And messily. It’s a sum of water, a specific weight of water between the two glasses that you own. In placing the water elsewhere, you haven’t done much besides lose a portion in the transfer. You can absolutely do what you’ve said! It will, unfortunately, just be a transfer from the speed to the chemical glass. You’d just lose a bit in the transfer.


  • Unironically, I would enjoy a bike that I could pedal at a constant speed, charging the battery all the while. Give me a display that indicates my pedaling speed so that I can tailor my exercise and you’ve created a moving stationary bike. I hate having to stop at lights and whatnot, so a rotation-based stabilizer would be nice at speeds below 10 km/h as I pedal the equivalent of 30.

    Really, it’s just unfortunate that the engineering doesn’t work out for momentum->chemical energy unless you’re biking at a professional level and willing to cruise slowly or charging the battery at home. Bleh