Uniqlo have launched their “convert your energy” campaign. Using kinetic energy pads, customers can generate power through movement. The promotion is related to the new HEATTECH gear that is now being sold in stores and online. Needless to say, the promotion is perfectly timed for the coming winter chills! (And will be particularly good for people like me who always seem to feel the cold and spend most the day asking others: Do you feel cold?).
As part of the promotion here on London Cyclist, Uniqlo have calculated how many kilometres someone would have to cycle to generate enough energy to power an electric oven for an hour.
To enter you need to answer the below question in the comments:
Q: How many km’s would you have to ride to generate enough energy to
power an electric oven for an hour?
a) 15km
b) 25km
c) 35km
The winner will have £100 to spend on any HEATTECH gear they want, from the Uniqlo store (there are both men’s HEATTECH and women’s HEATTECH choices). As we’re on the way to Christmas, this would be a good time to grab some of these tops as gifts.
Out of the correct answers, we’ll pick one winner at random using a random number generator.
Promotions will also be taking place in selected Uniqlo stores starting from October 25th until November 4th. This will be done using an innovative floor surface that will convert footsteps in to energy.
There will also be “Heat Spots” popping up around London in Garden, Soho Square, Westfield London, Westfield Stratford, and Bluewater where people can convert their social energy, to redeem a piece of HEATTECH.
The total converted energy from the promotion will be showcased on the in store screens.
HEATTECH is a new innovative brand of thermal clothing that is designed to lock in heat and keep you warm throughout the day. It’s also designed to be incredibly comfortable to wear to offer a soft and second skin like feeling to the wearer.
The heat spots will be at the London locations on the following days:
Covent Garden – Thursday 25 October –Sunday 28 October
Soho Square – Thursday 25 October –Sunday 28 October
Westfield London – Thursday 25 October –Sunday 28 October
Westfield Stratford – Monday 29 October –Saturday 4 November
Bluewater – Monday 29 October –Saturday 4 November
Our usual competition rules apply. The winner will be announced on this post.
Please note this is a paid promotion by Uniqlo.
ovens use loads and cycling doesn’t!
Answer is C I reckon
C
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C
It would have to be C.
C.
C
A, B and C
This is a stupid question and the writer should be shot.
* What kind of oven, industrial/residential/autoclave?
* What are the environmental conditions? Summer/Winter/…?
* Is the oven at steady state or is it heating up? Taking an oven from 20 degrees to 350 degrees takes a whole lot more power than maintaining one at 350 degrees…!
* What temperature are we cooking at? I can cook at 100 degrees for some food, and any of the answers would make it burn!
Can you re(de)fine the question and drop me an email when I either win or the question is clear!
B
Gotta agree with the comments that it depends on the wattage of the oven, and the conditions the cyclist is in.
I met these people in Soho Square where they’d brought along their ‘kinetic energy pads’.
The pads are inputs that control a piece of software which displays a red bar slowly rising on a large screen… They don’t generate energy, the unit itself consisted of nothing but these pads and a large screen powered by a battery. After stepping on the pads to get my free t-shirt, one of the promoters got me to ‘generate’ electricity on an iPad she was carrying.
As I was rubbing my finger across the glass front I looked her square in the eyes and asked ”is this generating electricity?”
She looked straight back at me, and said, ”Yes, rubbing the iPad generates electricity”.
It has to be C if the oven is actually going to cook something.
Gotta b c, please!
C
B
C
answer: c
Answer is C
fingers crossed.
k
As a pedantic scientist it’s an unanswerable question since there are too many unknown variables (type, temperature and size of oven, speed of cyclist, type of bike etc). But I’m quite happy to indulge in some guerrilla thermodynamics. An electric oven probably uses about 1kW so that 1kWh of energy for an hour. Sedate cycling at say 15 kmph probably requires about 100W so that 10 hours cycling to produce 1kWh, so that’s 150 km which is way off the possible answers I’d get your friends at Uniqlo to have another look at their calculations and buy a GCSE Physics Revision Guide. But I’ll go for C on the basis that its a very fast and very fit cyclist and a very small efficient oven.