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We only pedal in the gyms now, but can't generate some energy there? That would compensate for transportation to there, at least.
by das monde on Thu Aug 28th, 2008 at 12:48:11 AM EST
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Would it really, though? I can see that riding a bicycle to the gym instead of a car would work to reduce a person's fossil energy consumption, but the actual amount of cycling done _in_ the gym would surely be insufficient to compensate for the energy wasted in driving to the gym and back.

If you wanted to generate an equivalent amount of energy, you'd have to be pedalling a bicycle with a mass of 1 ton or thereabouts, and the hard part is slowing down at all the stop signs and accelerating up again. On the plus side, if you did this regularly, you would have excellent prospects at the Tour de France ;)

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by martingale on Thu Aug 28th, 2008 at 07:47:24 AM EST
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