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I once joked about installing a pedal generator in front of the passenger seat of a Prius so my friend Lauren Stanhouse could recharge the battery with her fat. She stores about 100 Prius batteries of energy as excess fat. (And Jean Ma over 1000, but she's really mean.)
The main problem is the slow rate of conversion of maybe 200w continuous maximum with a pedal generator. With nanotechnology fuel cells that can run from fat (Texas A&M is doing research on it), maybe a purely obesity-powered Prius can maintain a reasonable speed on the highway.
Obesity is responsible for three days of fuel usage every year. (I found that out through research for ENGL 104 class.) So the real irony is that in theory, the problem is the solution!
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If America manages to eliminate obesity, we would save as much fuel as if every American were to stop driving for three days every year. To be slender like Tiffany Yep is to be a real hypermiler...
Allie Moore and I have a combined carbon footprint much smaller than that of one average American...
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