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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/cb145db9-9e4f-473f-bc95-0236bf2a7fdc/36ABA038-5D54-49FE-AE64-71BE9305E78B/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.parade.com/askmarilyn/archive/Take-Your-Bike-to-Work-Day.html?singleFile=true" href="http://www.parade.com/askmarilyn/archive/Take-Your-Bike-to-Work-Day.html?singleFile=true" style="font-size: 11px;">www.parade.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.parade.com/askmarilyn/archive/Take-Your-Bike-to-Work-Day.html?singleFile=true"><DIV id="CB4-AList-headerCont">
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        "TAKE YOUR BIKE TO WORK" DAY?</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.parade.com/askmarilyn/archive/Take-Your-Bike-to-Work-Day.html?singleFile=true"><DIV class="answer"><DIV>
        <EM>Trevor Hall of Bellevue, Washington, writes:</EM> 
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<BR /><DIV>Marilyn: I was somewhat disappointed in your answer to the question about whether a bicycle
can be used to power appliances during a power outage. Although technically accurate, I found your
answer incomplete. It's true, you can't power a refrigerator with a bicycle. As an amateur racer, I
can put out about 300 watts for an hour before collapsing. Even Lance Armstrong can manage only 500
watts over that period of time. However, if I use that bicycle to instead make a trip of 25 miles,
I save about one gallon of gasoline. That amount of gas could power a 2000-watt generator for 12
hours. When you look at the entire system, you see that bicycles are great for personal
transportation versus (relatively) energy-inefficient automobiles. The fuel saved can then be used
more efficiently to generate electricity. 
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<BR /> So true, Trevor. Thanks for the reminder.</STRONG></DIV></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/36ABA038-5D54-49FE-AE64-71BE9305E78B/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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