Eco-Jim

I've just moved to trendy trendy North London, where everyone's into all that hippy crap about recycling, energy efficiency and water saving. Save the water! Save the whales! Save your breath. Whatever. I've got a much better way to redeem the environment. I've discovered an almost inexhaustible supply of renewable energy right under our noses, and no-one has tapped into it yet. You wanna know where? Go to your local Gym and take a long look around you. What do you see? Twenty or thirty hot and sweaty corporate go-getters running on treadmills, driving the pedals of stationary bikes, rowing invisible boats merrily upstream. And where does that energy go? Nowhere! It's harnessed as efficiently as a grease covered duck held in the hands of an ADHD two year old with a penchant for waving. I mean, it doesn't even power the lights! C'mon, seriously, why has nobody realised this? So I'm going to open the world's first enviro-gym? Everything is powered by you! That little television you watch on top of your step machine? Better climb faster if you want to make it to the end of Friends! Want a coffee? Sure, that'll be three miles at a 15% gradient. And you ain't going nowhere near the hot showers if you've done less than 20k on the treadmills. You know what? I bet there'd be enough power left over to run a couple of buildings for a week, or at least my hairdryer for ten minutes. It's ok, there's no need to thank me, once again, I've created the future.