Noam's missed opportunity!
A while back I scoffed at Noam's get-rich-quick scheme, in which he planned to tap the energy expended by gym-fanatics as they exercise and feed it into the National Grid.
It seems I may have been hasty (shades of the time I mocked Nozbo for the now infamous "Romans raped women with giraffes" claim), since Slashdot are reporting that a gym in Hong Kong has gone ahead and implemented the plan.
Still, I'm not gobbling down my humble pie quite yet: the best the gym has managed so far is a paltry 300 watts. That's about 30% of what a modern desktop workstation sucks from the grid. It seems these recyclo-gyms aren't quite the alternative to nuclear power one might have hoped.
posted by Rob at 12:24 PM
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12:36 PM
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12:36 PM
Ah! Vindication is mine! I knew that the emphatic lustre of superenergetic gym bunnies could be tapped as a possible solution to increasing green house gas emmissions. And if not, Im sure the silicon can be recylced.
ps heads up on moderating comments and deleting spam.
11:34 AM
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8:57 PM
Hehe, all the removed posts were actually my posts from the testing phase of the word verification enabling :-)
8:58 PM
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