Guests get on bikes to power hotel

Paddy Samurai

Crowne Plaza is launching the idea in copenhagen, but it could be offered to its hotels in the UK if it proves successful.Guests who produce 10 watt hours of electricity by using new electric bicycles will be offered a free meal, said the company, adding that its initiative would help people get fit, reduce their carbon footprint and save electricity and money at the same time.

http://www.independent.ie/and-finally/guests-get-on-bikes-to-power-hotel-2139451.html




How long do u have to cycle to produce 10 watts.I might get a few for the family when watching tv.It would cut down on my bills.If i get sky sports ,i could invite the mates around for the footie ......fill the front room with bikes (no not what ur thinking)and power the whole neighbourhood.
You could probably get a weeks hols full board for free ,if u cycled 24/7....might not be much of a holiday though.

How long would you peddle for a free dinner??.

Ghost Train

.01 kwh = 8598 calories

10 hours cycling

Zillah

This is a great idea.

In fact, if a hotel has a gym, they should hook all of the equipment up to the power grid.

EDIT: Er, yeah, asking for 10 watt hours is pretty ridiculous. That's what, three times the amount of calories that an average man is supposed to eat in a day?

Jumpy

Ghost Train wrote: »

.01 kwh = 8598 calories

I burned 5000 on a 130km cycle. I suspect calories burned in the body would be a different calculation however.

Ghost Train

Jumpy wrote: »

I burned 5000 on a 130km cycle. I suspect calories burned in the body would be a different calculation however.

probably

NothingMan

Can't they just hook a dynamo up to my hand and take the kinetic energy I create while I knock out some knuckle babies to the hotel porn? How much would I need to [EMAIL="w@nk"]w@nk[/EMAIL] to pay for the porn?

token56

NothingMan wrote: »

Can't they just hook a dynamo up to my hand and take the kinetic energy I create while I knock out some knuckle babies to the hotel porn? How much would I need to w@nk to pay for the porn?

I'd say you would be going well beyond the point of diminishing returns in order to pay for it.

biko

They could hook the doors up to the power grid, every time a dorr is opened or closed it produces electricity.

bluto63

I quite like the incentive, but they're asking for a bit much. How much would 10 watt hours save them in electricity costs? And a meal won't cost much

Paddy Samurai

This could be a great idea for Ryanair.

Electric aeroplanes were all the passengers peddle for their lives to power the plane.

This is your Captain speaking " peddle faster U bast@rds we're losing power"

bluto63

biko wrote: »

They could hook the doors up to the power grid, every time a dorr is opened or closed it produces electricity.

I remember seeing this technology that works on the vibrations caused by people walking around the building. Each step garners a little bit of energy, so over a certain amount of time it all builds up. There's all sorts of things they could do

Ghost Train

this is more like it, 6 minutes cycling

Getting the free meal is surprisingly easy. The hotel's calculations suggest one guest cycling at 30kmph for an hour will produce around 100 watt hours of electricity, meaning that reaching the threshold for the meal should take only six minutes.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/travel/2010/apr/14/hotel-with-electricity-generating-exercise-bikes

Dravokivich

Ghost Train wrote: »

this is more like it, 6 minutes cycling

http://www.guardian.co.uk/travel/2010/apr/14/hotel-with-electricity-generating-exercise-bikes

Do a bit of looking around, how many people do you see that would be in a good enough phsyical condition to do that?

gravityisalie

Paddy Samurai wrote: »

This could be a great idea for Ryanair.

Electric aeroplanes were all the passengers peddle for their lives to power the plane.

This is your Captain speaking " peddle faster U bast@rds we're losing power"

stop giving Michael O'Leary ideas!!!!:pac:

SV

Dravokivich wrote: »

Do a bit of looking around, how many people do you see that would be in a good enough phsyical condition to do that?

I can't think of one person I know who wouldn't be capable of that..

Cookie_Monster

SV wrote: »

I can't think of one person I know who wouldn't be capable of that..

+1, 30 kph on a bike isin't that big a deal tbh.

and even if they are a fat lazy slob, 20 mins should do it fine

Donny5

Ghost Train wrote: »

.01 kwh = 8598 calories

10 hours cycling

I think you're mixing up gram-calories with kilogram-(or dietary-)calories, as 10 Watt Hours would be 8.6 Dietary Calories. Good ol' Wolfram Alpha.

orourkeda

NothingMan wrote: »

Can't they just hook a dynamo up to my hand and take the kinetic energy I create while I knock out some knuckle babies to the hotel porn? How much would I need to [EMAIL="w@nk"]w@nk[/EMAIL] to pay for the porn?

You'd probably have no mickey left.

Jumpy

SV wrote: »

I can't think of one person I know who wouldn't be capable of that..

Indeed, I do about 32km most days at 30-35km/h average speed and I am a chubby bastard.

6 minutes would be piss to anyone except the elderly.

Jesus Wept

biko wrote: »

They could hook the doors up to the power grid, every time a dorr is opened or closed it produces electricity.

Good idea, could make them really heavy to open to juice up the production.

bnt

I remember averaging about 200W output, according to the display on an exercise bike I used years ago - so it apparently took me 3 minutes at that rate to produce 10 watt hours. (Dunno if I trust that display, though.)

10 watt hours is 1/100 of a kilowatt hour, so it's about 18/100 of a cent's worth of electricity. By way of comparison: if a 2000W kettle boils in 3 minutes (1/20 hr): it's used 2000/20 = 100 watt hours in the process. In other words, it takes ten 200W blokes to boil a kettle. :pac:

Capt'n Midnight

https://www.esb.ie/esbcustomersupply/residential/your_account/urban_24hr_tariff.jsp

So the guests are working up 0.14c about 1/7th of a cent


The main advantage is that they'd be warm so they wouldn't feel the cold also with a bigger apatite the food needn't be as tasty


re 8.6 calories, burn off another 3491.4 and you've lost a pound of weight