It does feel like all that wasted effort would be good to use for something productive. The energy used probably wouldn’t even heat the water for the showers though.
Maybe just charge people’s phones while the work out is better than nothing though.
The energy used probably wouldn’t even heat the water for the showers though.
Not even close. Someone posted a video of an Olympic cyclist going all out running a 700 Watt toaster for 2 minutes, and he was exhausted after that. A water heater would be like 3000 Watts and would need to run for a long time to heat up an entire tank of water, which would last for just a couple quick showers.
It does feel like all that wasted effort would be good to use for something productive. The energy used probably wouldn’t even heat the water for the showers though.
Maybe just charge people’s phones while the work out is better than nothing though.
Not even close. Someone posted a video of an Olympic cyclist going all out running a 700 Watt toaster for 2 minutes, and he was exhausted after that. A water heater would be like 3000 Watts and would need to run for a long time to heat up an entire tank of water, which would last for just a couple quick showers.