When someone goes to 'work' they receives a commission, but when you go to the gym to 'workout' you have to pay them - why? Why should we have to pay to workout, why can't we receives a commission - luckily health insurance companies now give discounts to people who have gym memberships - and that is nice, but we are still expending energy - which in physics means work. Whenever we expend energy at the fitness center it really is wasted - why?Why waste energy - think of all the calories we have been burning - that my friends is energy. Shouldn't we receives a commission for this? Maybe use that energy to charge tech devices, run the lights at the gym, or play a video monitor in front of us? You will want to sell that energy back to the energy grid and get a discount from the fitness center for "our work" - think about that for a moment, because this idea is not far-fetched at all. Let's talk shall we?In December of 2016 there is a fascinating article in the Sacramento Bee titled; "New Sacramento gym turns to people power," which stated:"Sacramento Eco Fitness, which opened Dec. 18, is outfitted with 16 specially designed SportsArt exercise bikes that work with a standard three-outlet plug to push power back into the power grid. The gym owner was looking for an entry in to the fitness business - once he decided environmentally friendly was the ideal solution, he said, he was drawn to the SportsArt's Eco-power equipment since it is so easy to use. 'You may have this in your home and have it work the same way,' he said. Most exercise bikes waste all of the energy utilized by those riding them. The SportsArt bikes use an onboard inverter to convert that kinetic energy into usable alternating electric current electricity."This is the brilliant business model, as it makes people think they are doing something good, even if it is hard to obtain them to move to all LED lights in the home or set their air-conditioners 3-degrees higher in the summer time. Nevertheless, every tiny bit helps and wasting energy is merely stupid, especially when we have the technology and knowhow to convert it efficiently and repurpose it. Someone in a spinning class might generate around 200 watts, someone on a treadmill nearly the same. That's enough to run 10 LED multi-head lights overhead at the fitness center (20 watts each). It's also enough to run your smart phone.Everybody at the gym together - well it all adds up, and that means you obtain the picture. Maybe this little business in the Sacramento Suburbs needs to be franchised across the country, as other eco-friendly entrepreneurs might just take notice. Think onto it.Lance Winslow has launched a fresh provocative series of eBooks on Innovation in America. Lance Winslow is really a retired Founder of a Nationwide Franchise Chain, and today runs the web Think Tank;