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Many people go to gyms or the fitness places to excercise on the machines. Why not hook up all of those machine to the electricity generators, and generate the electricity for the whole building or the buildings near by whenever people running, cycling, or pulling weights on the machines?
ci95w, Oct 13 2009
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The University of Oregon does this at their rec center.
Thanks alloy! I also just check and saw quite a few people posted this idea already too. It seems that many people thought of this already.
this idea is submitted about once a month--you should search it.
It just hasn't turned out to be practical. For the cost of the generators, wires, technicians, you can generate 10 cents worth of electricity over ten hours.
The truth is, a fit human is good for under 100 watts for like an hour, and most people use exercise machines that actually expend power--like a treadmill for instance.
The good news is that that 100watts turns straight into heat if it's not generating electricity, so gyms require less heating in winter. But in summer, not good news.