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
I mean, it’s a corpo that acquiesced. They don’t care about rights or vindication or freedom, they just care about line go up. This is good advice for average people, but does not make the line go up.
Ew
I said in another thread that I worried that they weren’t speaking sardonically. Speaking that way in a setting where they intend to affect change, at that age, these people are actively and sincerely choosing to make the world a worse place for everyone.