Guests pedal to a cheaper stay at Copenhagen eco-hotel
Adding to his enthusiasm is the fact that the hotel, which brands itself as "100 percent green", has put a price on its guests’ sweat: producing 10 watt-hours of electricity, generally achieved with an eight to 12 minute workout, will earn the German businessman a 27-euro ($35) voucher at the hotel restaurant.Bicycle Power – How many Watts can you produce? | mapawatt
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The carbon-dioxide neutral hotel cost some 125 million euros ($163 million) to build and is about five percent more expensive to run than a normal hotel, but the owners expect to make up the difference.
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[Oliver Tham] says he heard about the hotel back home and checked in because he was curious what a hotel committed to fighting climate change was like.
The current record holder for the Hour Record is Ondrej Sosenka and the website BikeCult.com has an estimate of his average wattage during his Hour Record at 430 Watts! If Ondrej’s bike were attached to a bicycle generator and it was super efficient, Ondrej would have been generating enough power to light up 7 60-Watt light bulbs! Since I pay about 10 cents/kWh, if I were to pay Ondrej for the energy he produced over the hour he was pedaling he would have almost earned a whole nickel (430 Watts • 1 hour = 430 Watt-hours = .43 kWh)!How much does electricity cost? What is a kilowatt-hour? (kWh)
The average cost of residential electricity was 12¢/kWh in the U.S. in April 2009, and ranged from 7¢ in North Dakota to 26¢ in Hawaii.
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No more energy! We're going to rediscover the disadvantages of being without energy, just like it was 200 years ago. We'll be lucky to have the muscle energy of a horse or donkey in the coming low-carbon world.
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