Excersising seems wasteful

[Broletariat]

It's literally burning energy, why don't we hook up excersise equipment to electricity generators and use that energy for something?

[graymouser]

Probably the cost of installing & maintaining the physical infrastructure for it. It's cheaper to get a machine that doesn't have a turbine and electricity output hooked up to it. I think some of them do power themselves now, but it's true that it's very inefficient. If humans are doing all that exercising we should convert it into electricity. But consider how much solar energy just goes to waste because of the cost of the infrastructure to capture it.

[Ocean Seal]

It's literally burning energy, why don't we hook up excersise equipment to electricity generators and use that energy for something?
All that energy that is lost in terms of caloric energy is replenished by the plants of this Earth.

[Jimmie Higgins]

It's literally burning energy, why don't we hook up excersise equipment to electricity generators and use that energy for something?I wonder how much energy could have been generated from me rolling my eyes just now.:lol:

I'm just teasing Broletariat - I just thought it was a good set-up for that punchline. I don't know anything about how useful or efficient it would be, but all those people on the bike-machines... I have to imagine it could at least power the music system in the gym.

[PhoenixAsh]

The means to convert the energy right now actually costs more energy than it creates.

But the idea is sound. We burn a lot of energy and when the machines need to be powered by another external energy source it is doubly wasteful.

There are a lot of machines that power themselves....but the problem is that a lot of gyms can not afford the initial cost of purchase eventhough in the long run its more cost efficient. Also the absolution and replacement rate is somewhat higher than the return of investment. Overall that makes it very cost inefficient.

[Ingraham Effingham]

On a semi-related note:

Apparently biking to work everyday is actually bad for the environment. You will live longer and consume more calories, and increase the overall carbon footprint.

[Sword and Shield]

On a semi-related note:

Apparently biking to work everyday is actually bad for the environment. You will live longer and consume more calories, and increase the overall carbon footprint.

Hahaha that's probably true. We need people to die faster. :laugh:

[eyedrop]

It's always cute when people proposes to connect the television to a bike, with an aggregate, even if it isn't practical.

[Kuppo Shakur]

Man, I've been saying this for years.
You don't have to generate energy, but at least do something useful to get exercise.
I got some shit behind my house that needs moved around, come on over it's like a gym.

[CommunityBeliever]

These exercise machines are part of the bourgeoisie consumer culture. All poor people get their exercise from work, such as from cycling.

[Robespierre Richard]

Why don't you just connect an exercise bike to a generator like the Viet Cong did?

[Pretty Flaco]

nothing I work out with is electrical. Usually I just bike/jog, lift weights, and do random excercises like sit ups/pushups/wallsits/etc

but i cant afford any fancy shit lol

[Robespierre Richard]

nothing I work out with is electrical. Usually I just bike/jog, lift weights, and do random excercises like sit ups/pushups/wallsits/etc

but i cant afford any fancy shit lol

Giant hamster wheel for running. Monkey wrench + generator for weight training.

[pastradamus]

These exercise machines are part of the bourgeoisie consumer culture. All poor people get their exercise from work, such as from cycling.


AHAH! Awesome....such as cycling to work!

[pastradamus]

Giant hamster wheel for running. Monkey wrench + generator for weight training.

I used to have a dynamo on my bike years ago. When I peddled a little light would come on the front of my bike at night and it was of great use to me. Sadly, cycling after cycling 13 miles my legs would slow down and the light would be non-existent. So kinetic energy sucks big time.

[Robespierre Richard]

I used to have a dynamo on my bike years ago. When I peddled a little light would come on the front of my bike at night and it was of great use to me. Sadly, cycling after cycling 13 miles my legs would slow down and the light would be non-existent. So kinetic energy sucks big time.

Well he wants it to not be wasteful... As far as I know, exercising consumes calories, converting them to kinetic energy, so it's just spending the energy we get from food and such.. If we just didn't exercise we could just save a lot of money on food production (maybe).

[bailey_187]

getting guns like these isnt a waste, my sparrow armed friend

[Queercommie Girl]

It's literally burning energy, why don't we hook up excersise equipment to electricity generators and use that energy for something?

This is partly why the really poor workers in the world simply can't afford to do exercises in any specialised way at all, like going to the gym or playing sports etc. For them "exercising" is simply the back-breaking labour they are forced to engage in every single day of the year, like those Chinese workers slaving away in the sub-standard coal mines for 10 hours or more every single day.

[Psy]

Because when you convert mechanical energy into electricity there is a loss, even very small motor electric generators have a few HP yet humans have a only fraction of a horse power thus that loss really becomes a issue.

Humans got animals of burden to power machines far before capitalism because humans are relativity weak, even the most steroid abusing muscular human is still no match to the strength of the average work horse let alone machines that can output thousands times the mechanical energy of a work horse. I.E in the strong man competitions where they have a strong man pull a truck a work horse will have a huge advantage in such a event, hell horses were used to pull trains prior to the introduction of steam locomotives.

Also there is labor that burns calories where human mechanical energy is directly used to do work one example would be furniture movers, lifting heavy objects up stairs would burn calories.

[Leftie]

Humans are no where near powerful enough to actually be able to power anything.

Even if we harvested all the energy used in exercise by everyone, there still wouldn't be much.