>I've considered mechanical body movement generation of various sorts
>but done only basic playing. Hand crank units usually don't give more
>than a Watt or so (I've measured them) - but this is usually due to
>the shocking mechanicals. I can get 10 Watts with no apparent effort
>from foot or hand "pedalling", 50 Watts can be done continually with
>not too much effort, 100 Watts is bearable for long peruiods but
>annoying. Higher starts to be real exercise (for me). I can personally
>do 500 Watts pedalling for only perhaps 10 seconds. (Gossamer Condor
>piloting will never be within my reach).

This week on one of the UK TV channels there is a program where they put a 
family in a house, but is disconnected from the grid, and all power is 
supplied by people on cycle generators - but they don't tell the family. The 
result sounds a bit hilarious (requires 74 cyclists peddling hard to power 
the on demand shower unit). Program is apparently being done as a 
demonstrator of how wasteful we are with energy.


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