Energy saving Billboard LEDS powered by a bike!

by max on Thursday, December 21st, 2006

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Here’s some good effort to saving earth’s energy and good advertisement for the company
mentioned in the billboard ad.

Last week in downtown Vancouver the billboard you see above was exlusively powered by volunteers pedaling a single bicycle over a span of about 5 days. The advertisement was sponsored by DDB/Vancouver and BC Hydro (hydro is a Canadian term for power or electricity) to show off how energy-efficient LED Christmas lights are. While the reindeer used on the billboard was lit with about 1500 LED lights BC Hydro claims that with the traditional type of incandescent lighting there would only be enough electricity to power 120 bulbs.

While this is definitely a very energy-efficient way to power a set of LED Christmas lights the hard part is finding enough volunteers to keep the bike going. The 5 days this billboard was lit up required some 120 volunteers from the ad agency and local organizations so if you’ve got a large family you might want to consider this alternative next Christmas to help keep the electricity bills down.

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  • That's kind of slick. Since a strong cyclist can consistently generate about 100 watts, it sounds like incandescent Christmas lights run about 1/4 to 1/2 watt each?
  • Izl
    make a mod for a bike that lets you power your house please :S
  • girrrrrrr2
    ok.... just hook up manty generators to teh wheel... anmd the hhook that uo to tour house... there... now go make it and stop posting,...
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