Tuesday November 15, 2005

Pedal your way to a cheaper lunch? A new chain of restaurants in the Bay area has proposed that they will give discounts to customers who are willing to ride stationary bicycles connected to a generator, helping to power the restaurant. Hmm, I am not seeing a downside to this. Burn calories + help the environment = get cheaper food. That's awesome!

It still irritates me, when I go to the gym, that I am wasting my energy on meaningless units of work. If the technology was feasible, it would be great to start a gym that could harnesses most of the energy expended by the patrons and sell it to other businesses. Then, you could give discounts to the people who generate the most joules:)
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