Spin your way to better health, and generate watts at the same time!

Ridgefield Fitness Club in Connecticut has hooked up with The Green Revolution company to implement the neatest feature on their stationery bikes. Now, as you pedal off those calories, you can also generate power that goes back into the Club’s grid, or back into the community grid if cyclers generate more power than the Club needs. Members of the cycling classes are generating more than 3,000 watts an hour. A class of 20 cyclists can generate more than 3,000 watts an hour. Over a month's time, their combined output can provide enough power to light six homes for a month.

A simple device attaches to bike and uses pedal power to generate energy, and includes a small readout so that the user can see what amount they are generating, bringing the spirit of competition to the classes.

The Green Revolution will use this test to refine their product, and then the company hopes to begin marketing the system nationally by the end of the year to independent health clubs, then approach the national chains by 2010. They will also be talking to universities and corporations about installing them in their fitness centers.