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Ramblings of a Quiet Man: July 2012
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Ramblings of a Quiet Man. Sunday, July 22, 2012. Technologies to Look At - Self Powered Gyms. Imagine, the next time you go to the gym. As you are pedaling away like mad on the exercise bike, improving your quality of life, you're also reducing the gym's carbon footprint. In the last few years some cleaver entrepreneurs have converted exercise bikes and elliptical machines into small power generators. As you are exercising, you are actually providing electricity for the gym. Released per year. So exe...
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These Exercise Machines Turn Your Sweat Into Electricity - IEEE Spectrum
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These Exercise Machines Turn Your Sweat Into Electricity. Exercise equipment that generates power is the latest fad. But will the economics work out? 21 Jun 2011 19:17 GMT. Photos: Stan Honda/AFP/Getty Images. Retrofitted by a company called the Green Revolution, exercise bikes at a New York Sports Clubs gym generate electricity; a display shows the bikers wattage. Ldquo;Stationary bikes create resistance, and through this friction, heat is produced,” says Jay Whelan, cofounder of the Green Revolut...