[ExI] generating energy with exercise equipment

Dan dan_ust at yahoo.com
Tue Mar 2 17:45:03 UTC 2010


Well, we live next to a star -- a huge energy source -- that gives us plenty of cheap energy -- either directly or indirectly (e.g., via fossil fuels). In a sense, we're always Woosters in some way -- if only the luck of not being in a far worse situation that we're unaware of.

Regards,

Dan


----- Original Message ----
From: spike <spike66 at att.net>
To: ExI chat list <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org>
Sent: Tue, March 2, 2010 12:12:17 PM
Subject: [ExI] generating energy with exercise equipment. was :RE: Accelerando

To expand on this a bit, we could advertise that the value of the power
generated by one's workout would be deducted from the monthly gym fee.  A
few customers with more muscle than brain might take it as a challenge to
try to work off their entire bill with muscle generated power.  These will
find how difficult it is to generate one single copper penny's worth of
electric power.  Most moderns would give up before finishing the generation
of one cent, for it would be a hell of a workout.  Do calculate it for
yourself.  Ignore the energy cost of the HVAC system in the gym, and the
lights, and the TV running Richard Simmons videos.

A recurring gag in Wodehouse's Jeeves and Wooster is how the Edwardian
English nobles were so very profligate, wasting money everywhere in every
activity, but they don't even realize it.  No one they know had ever had a
real job, they had plenty of money and more coming in always from some
mysterious source, so they knew not and cared not what anything costs.

We are like the Woosters, except with energy.

spike


      



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