by Ken Torino This is the fifth in a series of article about human energy. The original Power Box was designed with the idea of providing a low cost, lightweight pedal generator so that it would be within the reach of the largest number of people. To aid in the universal nature of the device […] Read more
Human Power Education
January 30, 2019
January 22, 2019
by Ken Torino This is the third in a series of article about human energy. The original idea for the K-Tor Company was the Power Box. If you are going to do any amount of cranking you will want to pedal. The main difference between the hand crank and the pedal generator is that you […] Read more
January 16, 2019
by Ken Torino This is the second in a series of articles about human energy. The best research was done in the early 1980’s by a group of scientists who were trying to develop human/pedal-powered cars and planes. To do this they measured the potential power output of typical humans over different conditions. The simple […] Read more
January 15, 2019
by Ken Torino This is the first in a series of articles about human energy. Human energy has been around for hundreds of thousands of years and human energy converted to electrical energy for a hundred years. Most of us can recall a WWII movie where a hand crank or pedal powered generator is being […] Read more