March 5th, 2007 by ketyung
This is the smart way of doing business, making use of your clients to generate some of your resources. The California Fitsness Gym in Hong Kong is making use of their clients to generate the electricity power needed for their operation. How? The gym has invested on some kind of gym’s execise machines, which after being used 10 hours a day for a year, would have accumulated the generated electricty approximately worth of $183.00. Oppps, sounds like the figure is pretty small, but the gym had to folk out the initial $15,000 investment to set up the entire power-saving operation. So, it takes at least 40 years for the return of investment if the gym was to operate 20 hours a day.
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