Calories equal watts.
Good morning,
You want to talk about using green energy? Portland, Oregon
entrepreneur Adam Boesel has just opened a small neighborhood
gym that uses a unique combination of solar power and human
power to provide a large fraction of the energy his business
uses.
Boesel says the Green Microgym is the first fitness center
in the country to use solar power as well as human-powered
cycling and cardio machines to generate renewable energy.
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Adam Boesel showed off the Human Dynamo prototype, an exercise
machine consisting of four spin bikes attached to a small gen-
erator. As he pedaled one of the human-powered bikes, a digital
readout showed the amount of watts that he was producing by
pedaling and turning an arm crank that strengthens the upper
body. As many as four riders can propel the prototype system,
which can produce 200 watts to 600 watts of energy an hour.
The 37-year-old fitness entrepreneur revels in his belief that
he has designed an ideal energy-efficient gym that will appeal
to a new generation of young, healthy and environmentally-con-
scious Portlanders.
Most gyms are energy hogs, with sweeping floor space, high
heating costs and hot showers always steaming in the locker
rooms. Boesel doesn’t know how much energy the solar arrays
and human-powered equipment will produce, but he expects his
fitness center to use about half the energy of most gyms its
size by providing as much as 40 percent of its energy needs.
His goal is to have the gym run solely on the energy it gen-
erates.
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