Seen at Treehugger:
Obesity is rife, and power is scarce. A gym in Hong Kong has take these two problems, and created one bonkers solution. The exercise machines create power which is then used to power the gym.
Rather than use machines that waste energy as heat or sound, they have installed the useful machines which can generate up to 50 watts from each person.
Recently a couple of the blogs I follow have been posting ideas on how to stay motivated to exercise. For example, one blogger suggests having one or two TV shows that one watches only while on the treadmill/exercise bike/hampster wheel. Another blogger has taken to playing audiobooks while guiding their push reel-mower around the yard.
I even recall someone contemplating hooking their exercise machine to a generator to power a TV, to guarantee that he/she wouldn’t be just a couch potato stuck in front of the tube.
I suppose that this gym’s idea is just the next step down that path. It seems like a good, creative idea to me.
