Clean Energy Idea - Treadmills!

[Perfection]

Originally posted by Flubber
The food part should be a wash if runners just ran on energy producing treadmills instead of the the energy using kind.

Only if the number of people using treadmills remains static, if there is a major push for this it would probably go up.

Originally posted by Flubber
Treadmill production could just be a case of replacing the existing energy using ones with energy producing models of some sort

There's a net energy cost in replacing and redesigning there.

one thing that should be noted is the quality of exercise may decrease especially in people needing low impact aerobics.

[Sirotnikov]

Only if the number of people using treadmills remains static, if there is a major push for this it would probably go up.

why?

[Perfection]

Originally posted by Sirotnikov


why?

Because if people exercise more, they'd probably eat more and the energy costs associated with food is really high.

[Flubber]

Originally posted by Perfection
Because if people exercise more, they'd probably eat more and the energy costs associated with food is really high.

Plus all those healthy people should live longer-- thats a big net energy coast

Oh ya and those thinner folks will be more attractive and probably have even more babies--another big net energy cost

[Perfection]

Originally posted by Flubber


Plus all those healthy people should live longer-- thats a big net energy coast

Oh ya and those thinner folks will be more attractive and probably have even more babies--another big net energy cost

Yep!

[Dauphin]

I prefer the notion that everyone be cremated when they die, and that certain power plants are refitted to take dead bodies as fuel.

[Cort Haus]

Originally posted by Dauphin
I prefer the notion that everyone be cremated when they die, and that certain power plants are refitted to take dead bodies as fuel.

Unfortunately the carbon police have something to say about that. Being fed to dogs is, I gather, the environmentally correct way of disposing with bodies.

[Arrian]

Dogs

[Dauphin]

Big dogs.
Medium sized dogs
Small dogs.

[Cort Haus]

Dogs on leads
Bitey-type dogs
Jumpy-up-and-lick-you type dogs :vomit:
Dog Poo

[Arrian]

Dauphin: define medium-sized.

By the way, I find that often the largest dogs are the most docile (see: Great Dane)

Jumpy-up-and-lick-you type dogs

-Arrian

[alva]

Meh, I came up with this idea when I was 9 years old for a school project, pffff.

[Kidlicious]

Put the "jumpy up" dogs on some sort of energy machine too.

[Cort Haus]

Originally posted by alva
Meh, I came up with this idea when I was 9 years old for a school project, pffff.

Bleh, I originally came up with it when I was 7! So there. Ner-ner-neh-ner-ner!

[Lord Avalon]

Originally posted by Cort Haus
Dogs on leads
Bitey-type dogs
Jumpy-up-and-lick-you type dogs :vomit:
Dog Poo

Victoria Stilwell