BIG IDEAS: Gustavo Barceloni's Energym
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Uploaded by GOODMagazine on Jan 5, 2010
There are more than 20,000 gyms and health clubs in America. That's a lot of spinning and rowing. What if we could harness the power of all those workouts? Gustavo Barceloni's Big Idea is the Energym, a place where exercise makes free electricity.
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It cannot work , the equipment needed would be costly and the maintenance and upkeep to keep it all going would be an expensive nightmare......better to use solar on the roof much less moving parts to go wrong
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This has allready been invented. Pluse it is impossible to have a perfect energy sorce that is ever flowing. Allways some energy will be waisted so its impossible for a gym to "run it self".
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@bugilt Or if you could plug your car in to charge it up then ,power your house with the excess from the car. Win , first humn powered Car and House . sort of
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This kid is right but he is definitely not the first person to think of this. And dumbbells and weights could be applied as well. Imagine a stall or booth with a bar running into holes on either side of you. Set the resistance or "weight" and start pumping. The upward motion will drive a wheel that spins freely when there is no "weight" being lifted. Now imagine a row of these all connected to the same wheel and every person contributes to the same generator. Somebody really needs to do this!!!!
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This idea was way better than give guns to animals and that kind of shit.
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I think this is a great idea!
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or the gyms could just keep all the energy for themselves and then charge people for it like all the electric companies do -.-
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yeah nice, now make it happen. don't forget to patent the idea before its get stolen, but i think you
figured this one out already. so the monthly payings at gyms can get lower.
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this idea is actually good and is absolutely possible . Pretty nice idea :)
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I wonder if the gym could produce enough electricity to pay for itself. If people didn't have to pay to use this gym I would see it becoming feasible.
bugilt 2 years ago 7
um ... a few of these already exist
ramanglass544 2 years ago 7