The Power of Exercise
Sure, exercise is good for you. Wouldn’t it be great it if was good for the environment and your wallet, too?
Apparently, that’s not such a far-fetched notion. Inventors are working on ways to use exercise machines to power lighting and fixtures, with the excess stored in batteries for later use.
Whittling your waist and your bills at the same time? Now that’s a great incentive to exercise!
2 Responses to “The Power of Exercise”
pretty slick stuff. I’ve been wanting to get involved with hardware electronics stuff for a while. One of the big reasons it keeps occurring to me is the amount of wasted kinetic and solar energy I see around.
I have a little cubicle desk toy which is a solar powered flower that just quietly bops back and forth under the fluorescent light with the help of a 1.5″ by .25″ solar collector thingie.
I just find it impossible not to look at the rest of the surfaces in my office. Cubicle walls, deskspace, the sides of computers, cabinets, etc. wondering how many plain old usb chargers you could run, how much electricity could be reclaimed from the unused lighting.
hmmm… starting to sound like a post.
I can’t help but giggling over the fact that my exercise bike requires 4 batteries to keep a fan blowing on my face. Wouldn’t it have made more sense to use the bike itself as the power source so riders get more of a breeze the harder they pedal?