AE Smith Pedal Power Generator Race at Green Cities 2010

Close to 200 participants from over 35 teams swapped their business suits for bike wear at Green Cities 2010 in Melbourne on February 22nd and 23rd, in a series of virtual races aimed at emphasising the importance of energy efficiency.

The inaugural "AE Smith Pedal Power Generator Race" was inspired by a desire to spotlight the effort required to be energy efficient by drawing on people to help generate power via a special bicycle generator.

Pitting teams of four against one another throughout the two day conference in a series of pedal power bike battles, AE Smith undertook to not only provide a Business Centre & Internet Cafe for the major green event, but to draw on representatives of the building industry to generate the power to run it.

While the initiative was a creative way to complement AE Smith's sponsorship of this major green building event, the Pedal Power race had a serious side - putting a spotlight on the challenges of being energy efficient.

Despite the collective herculean efforts of each team, we still fell short of the 5,000 watt hours needed each day to power the measly 6 laptop computers on the AE Smith Business Centre & Internet Cafe. Amazing when you think of all the people that participated. Just goes to show how precious electricity is, how difficult it is to create and why energy efficiency is so important.

We invite you to learn more about AE Smith and our energy efficiency services at www.aesmith.com.au. There you will also find the final Race Results and on the same page a hyperlink to see some pics of the event at www.aesmith.com.au.

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