What is it about?
This paper looks at whether people exercising in a gym can power the gym as an alternative to other renewable sources, like solar panels.
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Why is it important?
There is a lot of focus on renewable energy. This is the first assessment we have seen in the literature of using humans to produce electricity as a renewable resource and to actually put some numbers behind that.
Perspectives
As an energy researcher, folks always come up and say they have this great idea for powering gyms. So, we decided to do a study on it. Even though the energy is 'free' you still have to pay for the upfront investment for the special equipment - bikes, rowing machines. That money would be better spent on other power sources. Basically, there's a reason we replaced humans with machines for a lot of manual tasks - humans can't supply very much power.
Dr Michael Carbajales-Dale
Clemson University
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This page is a summary of: Human-Powered Electricity Generation as a Renewable Resource, BioPhysical Economics and Resource Quality, March 2018, Springer Science + Business Media,
DOI: 10.1007/s41247-018-0036-5.
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