One of the changes I am researching for my own life is setting up a bike-powered energy station in my home to charge low-energy items like cell phones, small rechargeable batteries and so on.
But there's also the potential for using the mechanical energy directly for larger items. For example, you could use a bike to power a blender or food processor by hooking the gears of the bike wheels to the gears in the blades. You could also use that rotary power to pump water, spin out salad leaves and operate a honey-separating centrifuge to remove honey from beeswax.
And of course all of this burns up the excess power I'm currently using to expand my belly. :-D
Lots of ideas and I'm still in the "seeing what's feasible" stage. But this challenge has inspired me to take this project off the mental back burner and start making real-world plans.
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