The Crowne Plaza Hotel in Copenhagen is offering a free meal to any guest who is able to produce electricity for the hotel on an exercise bike linked to a generator. The idea is to get people fit and reduce their carbon footprint. Guests will have to produce at least 10 watt hours of electricity - roughly 15 minutes of cycling for someone of average fitness. Guests staying at Plaza Hotel will be given meal tickets worth $36 once they have produced 10 watt hours of electricity. The bicycles will have smart phones attached to the handlebars measuring how much power is being generated for the hotel.
哥本哈根皇冠假日酒店为任何能够使用连接发电机的健身自行车为酒店发电的客人提供免费餐食，这个想法是为了让人们保持健康，减少他们的碳足迹。客人们必须产生至少10瓦时的电力，对于健康的人来说，通常大约需要骑车15分钟。入住酒店的客人发电10瓦时就会获得价值36美元的餐券。自行车的车把上会安装智能手机，用来测量酒店的发电量。
The plan, a world-first, will start on 19 April and run for a year. Only guests staying at the hotel will be able to take part. Frederikke Toemmergaard, hotel spokeswoman, said, “Many of our visitors are business people who enjoy going to the gym. There might be people who will cycle just to get a free meal, but generally I don’t think people will take advantage of our programme,” Copenhagen has a long-standing cycling tradition and 36% of locals cycle to work each day, one of the highest percentages in the world, according to the website visitcopenhagen.dk. US environmental website treehugger.com recently voted Copenhagen the world’s best city for cyclists. “Because Copenhagen is strongly connected with cycling, we felt the bicycle would work well as a symbol of the hotel’s green profile."
该计划是世界首次，将于4月19日开始实施，为期一年。只有入住酒店的客人才能参加。酒店发言人Frederikke Toemmergaard说：“我们的许多游客都是喜欢去健身房的商务人士。可能有人骑车只是为了免费用餐，但一般来说，我认为人们不会利用我们的计划。”哥本哈根有着悠久的骑车传统，根据网站visitcopenhagen.dk的数据，36%的当地人每天骑车上班，这是世界上比例最高的城市之一。美国环保网站treehugger.com最近评选哥本哈根为世界上最适合骑车的城市。“因为哥本哈根与自行车运动有着密切的联系，我们觉得自行车可以很好地作为酒店绿色形象的象征。"
If successful, the electric bicycle meal programme will be spread to all Crowne Plaza hotels in the UK, the hotel said in a statement.
酒店在一份声明中表示，如果成功，骑车发电免费用餐计划将推广到英国所有皇冠假日酒店。
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