TreeHugger.com reports that Oscar L’Hermitte has designed a cool cell phone charger that clips onto the reflector of your bike. The charger just clips on, and you ride for (yes, this seems like a long time) 90 minutes for a fully charged cell phone battery. But if you only need to top off your battery, then the ride […]
Entries Tagged as 'clean energy'
Bike-Powered Cell Phone Charger
December 23rd, 2008 · No Comments · clean energy, exercise, green technologies
Tags:bicycling·bike battery charger·cell charger·cell phone charger
Gym Car Pumps Your Ride
December 16th, 2008 · No Comments · alternative energy, clean energy, exercise
Coventry University (UK) graduate student and car designer Da Feng designed a car containing a step machine, rowing machine, chest press, pull-up simulator and weights that charge the batteries in a human-electric hybrid. Read more and see it here ….
Tags:Coventry University·Da Feng·gym car·human-electric hybrid
If every gym used compact fluorescent lamps
December 5th, 2008 · No Comments · clean energy, climate change, exercise
10/27/2008 – Aggressively replacing the world’s incandescent lightbulbs with compact fluorescent lamps (CFLs) could reduce lighting energy demand by nearly 40 percent and cut greenhouse gas emissions from day one, according to a new study. The report released by the Worldwatch Institute concluded that by 2030, these savings would add up to 16.6 billion tons […]
Tags:CFL·compact fluorescent lamps·cut greenhouse gas
MIT student uses exercise bike to power laptop
December 5th, 2008 · No Comments · Uncategorized, alternative energy, clean energy, climate change, exercise, green technologies
After classes, Sally Peach, a student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has a long list of to-dos.
She wants to hit the gym, tackle school work, and, as captain of an intramural soccer team and member of a campus health advocacy program, she has plenty of e-mail to respond to every evening.
“Though I know I […]
Tags:laptop·MIT·stationery bike
ReRev is a company working to capture human current from exercise
November 13th, 2008 · 1 Comment · alternative energy, clean energy, climate change, exercise, green technologies
We are retrofitting gym equipment to make carbon neutral energy in a safe, fun, and healthy manner. We efficiently and cost effectively capture the kinetic motion of aerobic exercise which is converted into clean energy that feeds back into the local utility’s power grid. This is just the beginning of the revolution.
We have developed a low cost method for rewiring […]
Tags:carbon neutral energy·clean energy·convert AC DC·gym retrofit·kinetic motion·power grid·ReRev
Dancing feet generate electricity for lights
November 12th, 2008 · No Comments · alternative energy, clean energy, climate change, exercise, green technologies
ROTTERDAM, the Netherlands — If you felt that the atmosphere in the new hip Club Watt was somehow electric, you would be right: Watt has a new type of dance floor that harvests the energy generated by jumps and gyrations and transforms it into electricity. It is one of a handful of energy-generating floors in […]