The Crown Plaza Hotel in Copenhagen , Denmark , is offering a free meal to any guest who is able to produce electricity for the hotel on an exercise bike attached to a generator.
Guests will have to produce at least 10 watt hours of electricity - roughly 15 minutes of cycling for someone of average fitness.
They will then be given meal vouchers worth $36 (26 euros).
Disco pub gets electricity produced by people dancing at specially modified dance floor
All the flashing strobes and pounding speakers at the dance club are massive consumers of electrical power.
So Bar Surya, in London, re-outfitted its floor with springs that, when compressed by dancers, could produce electrical current that would be stored in batteries and used to offset some of the club's electrical burden.
The club's owner, Andrew Charalambous, said the dance floor can now power 60 percent of the club's energy needs
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Designer creates a shower that forces you to leave when you've wasted too much water
20% of our total domestic energy usage is from hot water for showering and bathing.
That's over 6 times the energy usage of domestic lighting.
So designer Tommaso Colia came up with his eco-friendly shower design that will force you to get out when you take too long and waste much water.
The eco_drop shower features beautiful concentric circles that will rise to force you to stop showering when you take too long, and accordingly save water
Guests will have to produce at least 10 watt hours of electricity - roughly 15 minutes of cycling for someone of average fitness.
They will then be given meal vouchers worth $36 (26 euros).
Disco pub gets electricity produced by people dancing at specially modified dance floor
All the flashing strobes and pounding speakers at the dance club are massive consumers of electrical power.
So Bar Surya, in London, re-outfitted its floor with springs that, when compressed by dancers, could produce electrical current that would be stored in batteries and used to offset some of the club's electrical burden.
The club's owner, Andrew Charalambous, said the dance floor can now power 60 percent of the club's energy needs
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Designer creates a shower that forces you to leave when you've wasted too much water
20% of our total domestic energy usage is from hot water for showering and bathing.
That's over 6 times the energy usage of domestic lighting.
So designer Tommaso Colia came up with his eco-friendly shower design that will force you to get out when you take too long and waste much water.
The eco_drop shower features beautiful concentric circles that will rise to force you to stop showering when you take too long, and accordingly save water
