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We're having fun at this, but I think you may have just found a way to better gamify wellness initiatives...

Bicycle riders only produce a few hundred watts, while an average kilowatt/hr is worth 12 cents.

It's kilowatt-hour, not kilowatt/hour. Multiply, not divide.

It's kilowatt*hour not kilowatt-hour. Multiply, not subtract.

Haha, thought the same.

Exercise bikes that mine bitcoin. Hey Tesla, who needs batteries if you can store energy as monetary value.

As with commodities trading, the actual product has to exist somewhere.

Reminds me of The Calorie Man which is quite good if disturbing.

So where does the energy to move the bike come from?