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Tech_Frontiers_GreenGym_080901[i-1].body = "<b> <p style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: red\">Introduction</p> </b><p>The green revolution may be coming soon to a gym near you. Among the environmentally friendly features at Portland's Green Microgym is a four-person machine called Team Dynamo, which will harness the collective power of exercisers as they pedal and turn hand cranks &#8212; providing electricity for the gym in the process.<P ALIGN=RIGHT><i>&#8212; Bryn Nelson</i>";

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Tech_Frontiers_GreenGym_080901[i-1].body = "<b> <p style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: red\">Team Dynamo</p> </b><p>A new workout machine called Team Dynamo can deliver lower and upper-body workouts for four people while generating electricity via a common driveshaft that propels an electrical generator. On its low setting, four people could produce about 150 watts per hour. On the high setting and with seasoned athletes, the system could yield maybe 400 watts per hour, while sprints could produce bursts of 700 to 900 watts.";

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Tech_Frontiers_GreenGym_080901[i-1].body = "<b> <p style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: red\">Solar panels</b><p>The Green Microgym in Portland, Ore., boasts plenty of environmentally friendly features beyond its power-generating fitness equipment. The gym has foregone showers to conserve water and electricity, uses mainly refurbished or used equipment, and has installed solar panels outfitted on the awnings above the buildings' front windows, shown above, that can generate 3 kilowatts of power. ";

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Tech_Frontiers_GreenGym_080901[i-1].body = "<b><p style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: red\">Generating electricity</p></b><p>Green Microgym owner Adam Boesel works out on a spin bike attached to a motor he re-engineered to generate electricity that can be stored in a battery. Boesel hopes that electricity generated by the gym's workout machines can eventually be tied directly into the power grid.";

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Tech_Frontiers_GreenGym_080901[i-1].body = "<b> <p style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: red\">People power</p></b><p>California Fitness in Hong Kong was one of the first gyms in the world to install power-generating fitness machines. For the gym&#146;s \"Powered by YOU\" pilot project, 13 elliptical machines and StairMasters were connected to an electricity-generating unit. The \"people power\" movement includes more than just health clubs, however: Two European nightclubs are planning to generate electricity from the motion of people dancing on high-tech dance floors.";

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