I’ve decided to set up a new category for daft ideas. These are the things that we all have from time to time but who knows? There might just be something that comes out that is useful. Mrs Penguin can testify that I am very good at coming up with daft ideas for which I’m sure sometimes she thinks I’m mad but one day they might change the world.
So to start things off, here’s my first daft idea. Up and down the country there are millions of Britons who spend their time in gyms working off excess consumed energy on various devices.
Now most of these exercise devices aren’t going to be applicable but for those that produce rotary motion (I’m thinking exercise bikes here). Why not hook them up to a dynamo and plug them into the grid?
I know the science, the amounts of energy produced aren’t much, but why waste the energy for what amounts to twenty quids worth of equipment added to the average bike. Who knows, some of the gyms might end up making a little bit of extra money back.