anybody ever try to do this?

[PghUSA]

If you treadmill or stationary bike you are your own little hoover dam, why not use your energy output then?

http://epics.ecn.purdue.edu/hhes/projects/...r%20Website.htm

http://www.humboldt.edu/~ccat/pedalpower/hec/hpeg/hpeg.html

http://www.thinkcycle.org/tc-filesystem/do...ator/ppg2-2.PDF

http://www.dynamo.mz-b.de/lima/lima.htm

http://www.homepower.com

http://www.zapworld.com

http://www.andrewtobias.com

http://www.candlepowerforums.com

http://www.otherpower.com

http://www.alpharubicon.com/altenergy/humanpowergen.htm

http://www.zetatalk.com/energy

lots of food for thought, with rising oil and utility prices!

[Fruit Cove]

i wonder if lance even pays for electricity. just kidding

[Allan]

Nope...electricity is the one thing that is actually included in my rent. LOL.

[Spartan]

That is something I hadn't considered. Sounds like a smart idea!

[PghUSA]

There was a poor village in Thailand or somewhere in Southeast Asia and there was no power grid there or power lines its so remote, so the village hooked up generators to treadmills and stationary bikes to energize the computers that way they are a "wired" village.

I think if we stopped the maddness with the military-industrial-energy companies (oil, nuclear, coal etc.) and learned to live off what we make everybody would be better, and we wouldnt have to go to Iraq. Just my 2 cents. ;-)

[monsoon]

[Myles Away]

Winston-Salem's fifth tallest building was designed as a green building and the nation's first smart building with large computers in the basement. I read the insurance company did this because of the energy crisis of the 1970's. It was featured in a building and property management magazine not long after it was built. Very cool design and I cant help but wonder why all buildings aren't designed that way today. It looks different from every angle. The back is solid glass and the front has windows tilted at an angle. The sides have very narrow windows. Its still a conversation piece on our skyline today!