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Wednesday, February 14, 2007

Energy Waste to Power House

Weight instruments in gym need to be combined with energy storing devices.

This one is long pending query I have. Is it not possible to combine energy storing device in instruments to weight exercise?

There are hundreds of people per body building centers (gym) and tens and hundreds of gyms per city. So, undoubtedly a large number of people do the work out day in day out. Loads are lifted and released. Springs are compressed and de-compressed.

Efforts are put. Sweat poured off. Calories burnt. Bodies toned. But yes, as per the energy conservation laws, the energies released by the humans get exhausted in machines in lifting loads and compressing springs. So how about transferring that energy to some storage device?

Has anyone, any engineer/researcher pondered over this?

A Gym instrument costs sky high. Here I am not talking about the dumb bells or simple instruments which cost in hundreds. I am talking about the instruments which cost in lakhs or close to a lakh. So can energy saving batteries be put in those instruments so as to conserve the energy that simply go waste in raising weights? This additional arrangement will store a good deal of energy which can be utilized on the same premise like air-conditioning, lighting or even running other gym instruments.

With this, people will have an additional incentive to do gym – they will understand that the effort they make not only tone their body but also create some useful energy. This is a very useful contribution to the economy as this reduces the overall consumption of energy in the country.

People are becoming now a days more health conscious. More and more people are joining health centers. So I appeal the Energy Device Researchers to take this as a research problem. If the research succeeds, gyms will no more remain a place where dumb weights jump up and down rather it becomes a “power house” where human muscular energy gets converted other forms fruitful energy.

In present situation of situation of energy crisis this must not be ‘bad’ idea…

Am I wrong somewhere?


 
 

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