Pedal for your dinner

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/8621038.stm

Might be rolling out in the UK.

How do I get one of these installed in my flat?

£23 quid for 15 minutes????

That is GENIUS! I'd be the fattest bastard ever.

It'd be neat to have this in your flat, yeah! My electricity bills are ridiculous since my little brother got his PS3.

Pfft.. average fitness.
Get it done in 5, shower and head down to the rezzie.

Pedal for food.. I'm fucking IN IN IN!!!!

The bicycles will have iPhones attached to the handlebars measuring how much power is being generated for the hotel.

Yeah right.

Seeing as it takes a lot of cyclists pedaling for a considerable time just to boil a kettle (see BBC's recent experiment) it's going to be a pretty paltry dinner

~.3kW for an hour.. hmm...

That's what I was thinking.

A stove top uses about 14,000W apparently.

So 10watt hours (36,000 Joules) from the bike equates is about 2.5 seconds on a stove top, call it 10 secs for one hob. Calamari? Angel Delight?

The math (sic) has been done, cyclists consume more than they can generate. Unless we can feed an army of riders on seawater and raw potatoes it's not going to work.

The math (sic) has been done, cyclists consume more than they can generate. Unless we can feed an army of riders on seawater and raw potatoes it's not going to work.

You know, I thought that the staff at my school canteen were just shit at cooking. Turn out they were wise before their time.