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duskwuff
on Dec 22, 2012
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A $5 Lamp Powered Solely by Gravity
I suspect it's even less than that. A fancy (= expensive!) bicycle hub dynamo has an efficiency of about 70%, and that's assuming that it's operating at peak efficiency, and that there are no additional mechanical losses in the lamp.
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