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Video: Occupy Wall Street Will Soon Survive On Pedal Power

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Two communists power a generator hooked up to a bike in Zuccotti Park (screenshot)

Yesterday, the FDNY and NYPD raided Zuccotti Park and confiscated Occupy Wall Street's "generators and fuel from Zuccotti that posed a fire safety threat." Even the biofuels, man! But cycling advocacy group Times Up! energy-mapped the whole park and determined it would take 11 pedal-powering generators to fuel the movement, at the total cost of around $8,000.


Apparently, five of those special bikes are being assembled right now, in addition to the one that already existed in the park. We're still trying to determine whether or not the generator-bikes were donated or paid for by the movement's coffers, but that means only five more to go. Now the protesters just need a giant retractable dome that keeps the wind and rain out.

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  • chee1rs

    Michael Moore was there for his photo op , then went to the Apple store for the new iPhone

  • Guest

    I think this is a great opportunity for Michael Moore to show his support for real.  He could bedal for 6 weeks without being fed.

  • Michael Moore has been down there already.

  • Mark Lyon

    According to Privately Owned Public Spaces rule 37-743, "Electrical power shall be supplied by one or more outlets furnishing a total of at least 1,200 watts of power for every 4,000 square feet, or fraction thereof, of the area of a public plaza." Is the developer in violation of this rule? If no, why not just use the provided outlets?

  • Lazio_Giggalo

    When will the Emperor of New York stop treating the public like they are suckers or they were born yesterday and he makes it so obvious on top of it! The effort of the NYFD and NYPD is to beat down the OWS movement through freezing them out! Safety is a PR spin which he hopes the public will believe and the protesters will go home! The Emperor is living in the fog of make believe! It was an illegal seizure of generators that run on biofuels and doesn't pose a safety threat to the public! Bloomberg is hell bent on taking down the OWS movement! He's part of the 1% and with his corrupt friends are starting to get nervous that the protests are gaining traction in the poles. His logic is twisted and to say the least criminal! Now those protesters understand that Bloomberg

  • xnan

    ...and what bank do you work for Michael? shpos

  • take it deep hippies

  • Guest

    what happened to the Greenpeace truck outfitted with solar panels?

  • Yo, Occupiers: Here is your first sustainable econo2.0 business: build the bikes. And sell them. Right there from ZucciniPark.

    I assume somebody has thought of this. Get to it. I need one for my Zune!

  • IT_guy

    Bio-diesel is not the same as ethanol, which is what was discussed in that article you linked to.  
    Different products, different processes, though both are biofuels.
    Ethanol isn't so great, bio-diesel is better.
    Just a clarification.

  • Christopher_Robbins

    That is true! I will strike the remark.

  • How you like the first little chill OWS?  Think maybe it's time to pack up and rethink your strategy? Loving the weather from my nice warm heated apartment with running warm water and working toilets!!  Money in my pocket means I'll be having a great weekend of football, food, and friends.  Enjoy your whining ways while you try to avoid illness, frostbite, flu and death!  Bike Generators.  Laughing my fucking ass off at you all.....!!!!!!

  • ignatiusnyc

    how do write such horrible things about u.s. marines and army vets of all ages and all wars who fought for what they beleived was "your" freedom?  securing your "financial" freedom,: do other sensible human beings actually befriend a invidual such as yourself? are you not ashamed to post "football, food, and friends" as your value system?

  • Nope, I'm proud to have money, a job, and friends.  I'm not a beggar like you BUMS on OWS.  My value system dictates that I shit on and eradicate all human scum, known as bums, freeloaders, communists, socialists and all OWS supporters.  Kill yourselves already.  You'll be happier than freezing to death or starving to death.

  • Interesting philosophy, Michael.  Since you advocate shitting on all "human scum",  take Joseph's suggestion and go down to OWS, where I'm sure they would love to shit on and eradicating YOU.   Just bums and freeloaders, communists and socialists?  Why stop there?  How about gays, women, people of color, immigrants, transgender, Muslims, Hindus, Sikhs....oh, I forgot hipster transplants......that should keep you busy for a while.

  • nvk

    A kind reminder that your value system is about 600 years too old.

    *My* value system dictates that I point out that anyone who does not realize that individualism and libertarian ideals do not scale to contemporary society is a fucking idiot.

    Everyone forgets what the world looked like when Adam Smith wrote The Wealth of Nations --- hint, it was the late 1700s, the "goods" you could consume were quite limited, and high science at the time involved Euler's theories in math (which are no doubt important now, but they had few applications back then.)

  • Joseph Davidian

    I have a suggestion why don't you go down there and tell them in their face, let them see you. Use the peoples mic. Since you seem to have a value system that espouses eradicating human scum show some courage go down there. Show them how you do it.

  • The depth of your psychopathy is piteous.  

  • StarryGordon

    Don't feed the trolls.

  • Yes.I want to see YOU laugh when you lose YOUR job and are in danger of losing YOUR nice warm apt, flat-screen TV, and the friends you USED to watch football with, who will abandon you. LOL

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