Eco Factor: Exercise bikes used to generate renewable electricity.
The Crowne Plaza Hotel in Copenhagen has stated a free meal idea as a way to boost guests’ fitness and reduce their carbon footprint by making them exercise on bikes that generate electricity as well. The bikes are attached to generators that require guests to pedal for about 15 minutes and generate 10Wh of electricity.
Once the target watt hours are generated, the hotel gifts a $36 meal voucher, which is presumably on a repeatable reward system. The bikes features iPhones attached to the handlebars that display the amount of power being generated. Apart from generating renewable energy from exercise bikes, the hotel has also installed 2400 solar panels and uses low-energy lighting and groundwater-based cooling and heating systems.
Via: Gizmag/Popular Science
