Every time I go to the gym i see all these poeple, myself included, wasting their energy. Couldn't the machines we work out on (treadmills, etc.) be configured to actually feed power back into the grid? Or at the very least- to power their own display screens so they wouldn't need to be plugged in?
2007-08-14 11:59:07 · 3 answers · asked by Luke A 1 in Environment ➔ Green Living
A normal person can put out 100-200 watts for an hour. That amount of energy is worth about one cent.
It can't remotely pay for the stuff necessary to collect it. Even to run the display on the machine. You'd need battery backup, have to change the battery periodically.....
If one person at the gym changed one light bulb in their house to a compact fluorescent, it would be worth far more.
2007-08-14 12:07:30 · answer #1 · answered by Bob 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If you want to save energy, don't use the machines. Run.
2007-08-14 16:10:50 · answer #2 · answered by jdkilp 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Unfortunately we don't even produce enough to run the machine.
2007-08-14 14:52:27 · answer #3 · answered by Report Abuse 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋