Poles get pedalling to power outdoor cinema amid soaring energy prices
- Dozens of people showed up to watch a film on a screen in a Warsaw park, with some sitting on static bikes plugged into a generator
- Initiative aimed at encouraging residents to think more about the environment as energy prices rise and nation faces coal shortage
For Marek Kaszewek, 63, there’s no better way to spend a Friday evening than watching a film, riding a bike and doing something good for the planet all at once.
“We are learning how to operate in a new world,” he said, as he pedalled a static bike with an eye on a screen showing him how much charge he was generating to show a film in Warsaw’s central Pole Mokotowskie park.
“It’s important to find a way to continue helping our planet.”
He was one of dozens of Poles who showed up at the event to watch the film “Knives Out”. A row of bikes had been set up behind fold-out chairs in front of a big screen on a clear, late summer’s night in the Polish capital.
The bikes were plugged into a generator that would provide at least 50 per cent of the power required to show the film.
The initiative is part of a series set up by services company Impel that has toured Polish cities this summer, with the aim of encouraging Poles to think about more environmentally-friendly ways of living.