Harnessing all that wasted energy
March 23rd, 2007[ General ]
While I don’t expect anyone to believe me, I swear this is one I thought of myself a long time ago. It’s proof that ideas are cheap, implementation is all that matters.
Anyway, I had a brief stint in a previous life as a bit of a gym rat. Whenever I was in the gym watching all these people working their asses off it always struck me as odd that we just throw away all that energy. Well technically not throw it away but translating into something useless like noise, heat, a spinning treadmill etc. I often wondered what a farming family from a century ago would think if they saw a modern gym. It’s cool to see someone’s finally trying to do something about this.
What about something more rudimentary though? There’s all these people out there with a need to pick up heavy objects to stay in shape. Certainly there must be customers for that, people who have heavy objects they need lifted. Can’t we get them together instead of all these bright lights lifting the same damn objects over and over again all day?
What about a moving company? Instead of paying for a gym membership, I’ll setup a “circuit” for you for free. Run up the street to 35 Morris, climb the stairs, pick up a dresser, carry it down stairs, put in van, run a mile to another house, move something else, run back to previous house, etc. Sure, the uniforms would be a bit odd but how environmentally friendly is my new moving company?
Maybe I’ll try this next time I’m at a gym and someone picks up some dumbbells:
“Oh don’t worry about those, I already lifted those.”
“Pardon?”
“Those ones. I already lifted them. There’s a bunch over there that still need to be lifted.”