Exercise bike leads the ‘charge’ toward green workouts
As part of a senior project supervised by electrical engineering professor Hür Köser, electrical engineering major Henrique Rocha ’09 has devised a mechanism that harnesses the energy generated by a stationary exercise bike at Payne Whitney to charge small electronic devices like iPods and cell phones.
The green workout PRECOR bike, which was retrofitted with the new technology last month, is just a prototype for a larger-scale project the team is planning — a project to harvest the energy generated by gym goers in order to power parts of the gym itself.
“The general idea...
that's so terrible that none of the gym people had heard about or tried it though... they should at least try to publicize it at the gym with posters or something.
Henrique, this is awesome!
One way to jump start the project is to test it out in jails and state prisons. Since they don't have any time for anything else better to do is to sever their punishment you should think about a "Human Hamster Thoery" were the prisoners power the jail they are being held in. Take it the moral issue with most convicts would be to not pdeal for power but it is better than sitting in a gloomy cell.
this is so cool! Another tragic casualty from in the marketplace of ideas due to the economy.