{"id":519262,"date":"2010-04-07T12:44:19","date_gmt":"2010-04-07T16:44:19","guid":{"rendered":"tag:www.greenlaunches.com,2010:\/\/19.54811"},"modified":"2010-04-07T12:51:59","modified_gmt":"2010-04-07T16:51:59","slug":"inmates-of-arizona-jail-to-help-the-environment-while-burning-some-calories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/519262","title":{"rendered":"Inmates of Arizona jail to help the environment while burning some calories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        <span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenlaunches.com\/prisoners-make-electricity.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"prisoners-make-electricity.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.greenlaunches.com\/prisoners-make-electricity-thumb-450x349.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"349\" class=\"mt-image-left\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0 20px 20px 0;\"\/><\/a><\/span><br \/>\nSheriff Joe Arpaio of Arizona has devised a great way for the inmates of his jail to stay fit while generating electricity. Yup, that\u2019s right! He arranged for a stationary bike equipped with a mechanism to generate electricity to be set up in the jail\u2019s viewing centre. The TV is connected to this bike, if an inmate wants to watch TV, he has to pedal his way to entertainment. This bike, which the sheriff calls, \u201cPedal Vision\u201d, can generate 12V of current, which is enough to power a 19-inch TV set. If all of US\u2019s 2.5 million prisoners were to follow this practice, it could generate more than 363,641 kWh of electricity while saving millions of dollars. Currently, this facility is only available for the female inmates at Arpaio\u2019s jail.<\/p>\n<p>Considering the importance of exercise for the inmates and the scarcity of energy, this is a great way to contribute to solving both the problems.<br \/>\n[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.treehugger.com\/files\/2010\/04\/what-if-every-prisoner-in-the-us-produced-electricity.php\">treehugger<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Arizona has devised a great way for the inmates of his jail to stay fit while generating electricity. Yup, that\u2019s right! He arranged for a stationary bike equipped with a mechanism to generate electricity to be set up in the jail\u2019s viewing centre. The TV is connected to this bike, if [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-519262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=519262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519262\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=519262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=519262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=519262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}