Green gyms: healthier grist for recycled treadmills | Reuters
Perhaps no one has gone farther down the green road than Robert Kravitz, who opened Go Green Fitness, a boutique club in Orange, Connecticut, last December.
"I was managing the building (which also includes a shopping center) when the economy turned a few years ago. We had two bankruptcies and tenants left," he explained. "Go green Fitness came about because I wanted to bring the building back to life."
To that end he created a state-of-the-art fitness center that harnesses the energy produced from his spinning classes.
"We are the first ones on this scale," he said. "We have 25 spin bikes. Each has a generator creating watts that are fed through a converter box right into local electric grid. We have an agreement with the power company and should start getting reimbursed in June."
kdyby se každý rotoped na světě zapojil do sítě - kolik energie by to vytvořilo? :)
