NU12#6- “Pawis” Power by Ed Vargas

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From: Ed Vargas <ed_vargas08@yahoo.com.ph>
Date: Thu, Nov 28, 2013 at 6:42 PM

NU12#6 – "Pawis" Power

By Ed Vargas

Lately, we have been witnesses to the dire effects of climate change – typhoons have been getting stronger and very destructive. One of the reasons cited for the climate change is the greenhouse effect due to increased levels of carbons in the atmosphere coming from fossil fuel fed motor vehicles and power generating plants. This has brought calls for the use of renewable energy resources such as solar, wind, ocean waves and biomass power.

I proposed the use of "pawis" power as an alternative source of power. What is "pawis' power? "Pawis" power makes use of any equipment with rotating parts which are manually operated to drive a rotor that will generate electricity.

Health and fitness are the in thing nowadays with the proliferation of fitness centers like Gold's Gym, Fitness First and several small gyms in the neighborhood. In this gyms you'll always find equipment like stationary bikes and thread mills. We can harness the energy of these equipment by connecting it to a rotor that will generate power as it rotate while being used by the gym users and connect this to battery charger that can power up small electric appliances or power a cell phone charging station.

Andok's and Baliwag Lechon can use "pawis" power and save on cost of electricity. Instead of using electric motors to rotate their rotisseries they can use manually pedaled equipment.

The National Bilibid Prison can make use of "pawis" power to power-up part of their operation. Those convicted to years of hard labor may instead be required to do time by pedaling a number of stationary bikes or running thread mills simultaneously to drive a rotor to generate power. This way you keep the fitness of the prisoners and save on power consumption.

Instead of fun run, marathons and biking events, why not organized a simultaneous stationary biking or running on thread mills of thousands of individuals and collectively harness their "pawis' power and store them in batteries.

Individually, this may not be enough to cut carbon emissions but collectively will contribute less dependency to fossil fuels while we exercise to stay fit. 3

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