$36 for 10 watt hours.
That's $3600 per kilowatt hour.
I pay less than 20c per kWh (mostly dirty coal powered kWh, granted).
It reminds me that there are a lot of feel good greenish ideas floating around that have little or negative actual effect. Generating 40W will power one of the light bulbs in that gym.
On the other hand, $36 for 15 minutes of cycling works out to $144 per hour, not a bad wage.
Sure it's a marketing gimmick but the guests get some exercise and the hotel gets some PR along with a negligible amount of electricity.
What they don't tell you is that $36 will just about buy you a sandwich and a beer in Copenhagen.
I'm aware that it's mostly an empty gesture towards sustainability, but it's still sort of cool. I'd totally accept free exercise plus a free meal.
Sex also burns a lot of calories. Is it really too much to ask of a hotel to offer a free meal to people who have sex in the room?
Oh, wait -- this is about producing energy, not burning calories? Fine. I'll come up with some way to get free meals for having hotel sex if it kills me.
'Nockle, I'm not touchin' that comment with a ten foot pole q-tip.
ten foot poleq-tip.