A cycling fitness studio called Go Green Fitness in Orange, Connecticut has developed a program that converts power generated from cycling workouts into clean and renewable energy.
A typical group cycling class with about 20 bikes has the potential to produce up to 3.6 megawatts of renewable energy per year (the amount of power used to light 72 homes for a month) and reducing carbon emissions by more than 5,000 pounds. The entire group cycling studio, comprised of 24 indoor cycles, is connected to the studio’s electrical grid through an inverter, so the energy created by the cyclists can power all aspects of the facility, lowering the studio’s carbon emissions as well as the community’s demand for fossil fuel-based energy.
Excess electricity generated from the club can return to the power grid for other energy use in the community. All cycling participants can control and monitor their individual renewable energy output through a resistance control panel attached to the bicycle, and Go Green Fitness can track the total energy that is produced through exercise on the Go Green Fitness web site.
The fitness studio utilizes technology developed by a company called The Green Revolution, the gym The Green Revolution connects health + energy + environment by turning human effort within a health club into usable energy... an idea whose time has come.
