Why don't we put generators on all exercise equipment and hook the gym to the electrical grid? We could pay people for their effort.People are a very poor source of energy. Working flat out, you can maybe generate a third of a horsepower, about 250 watts. That’s about a penny an hour, wholesale, for power. You put more than a penny of wear on the treadmill belt in an hour. If the generator costs $50, it would take 5,000 hours of continuous effort just to break-even. That is over half a year of continuous running. So it looks like the scheme can’t even pay for the equipment, much less pay anyone. And nobody would work for a penny an hour anyway. They would have to eat about $4 of food just to be running for a whole hour. No way to come out ahead on this idea. Never mind the dozens of web sites that promote this idea, it’s crazy.
Pops wrote:It depends. I'm pretty well of in the scheme of things but I still get up on my own 2 feet to walk to the bathroom. You don't need 20 young studs to power your self-propelled mower, you just need a i-person push mower.
I used to do this as a kid. Had an old reel mower that was very difficult to push because my dad never maintained it. Fortunately our yards were pretty small. I thought they were all like that. It wasn't until years later that I tried pushing a neighbor's new one. Like night and day, so easy to push. I was so mad at my dad who never did any maintenance on it and made me push the old unmaintained one for years.theluckycountry wrote:Are you telling me you mow your properties with a push mower pops? Now that would keep you fit.
kublikhan wrote:I used to do this as a kid. Had an old reel mower that was very difficult to push because my dad never maintained it. Fortunately our yards were pretty small. I thought they were all like that. It wasn't until years later that I tried pushing a neighbor's new one. Like night and day, so easy to push. I was so mad at my dad who never did any maintenance on it and made me push the old unmaintained one for years.theluckycountry wrote:Are you telling me you mow your properties with a push mower pops? Now that would keep you fit.
kublikhan wrote:I used to do this as a kid. Had an old reel mower that was very difficult to push because my dad never maintained it. Fortunately our yards were pretty small.
Shaved Monkey wrote:Reminds me of the episode in Black Mirror
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2089049/
Though they do have exercise bikes in Brisbane airport to charge your phone you pedal (they have regular charging points to )
Not bad to move the legs before or after a long haul flight
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