An Alternative Energy Source

POSTED BY: Succatash
UPDATED: Sunday, September 7, 2003 04:26
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SUCCATASH

Saturday, September 6, 2003 2:41 AM

I was thinking of the recent Blackout and how we need to come up with additional sources for energy before the world uses up all its resources. I think I've got a good idea!

TREADMILLS! Yep, treadmills, the world is full of them. There are millions of gyms and exercise rooms full of treadmills, and all day long people run on them.

We need to harness all that energy!

Instead of paying to join a health club, they pay you to run on the treadmill! Chubby Americans can get tax cuts for running on a treadmill and producing energy. We would all become very healthy.

It shouldn't be too hard to wire every treadmill into some kind of battery. I say, let's do it!

KAYTHRYN

Saturday, September 6, 2003 3:01 AM

But Americans are pretty damn lazy. I'm afraid I'd be stuck hand writing letters to you browncoats by candle light. And then there would be rise in stamp prices, paper cuts and house fires. How would we be able to watch FF then? We'd all be broke, bleeding, burned, or sitting in the dark.

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It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
Aristotle

SUCCATASH

Saturday, September 6, 2003 3:11 AM

I have to disagree with you Kaythryn. Many Americans work out regularly and "going to the gym" is a very popular thing to do. Thousands, millions do it.

This idea could save California, with all the Hollywood fitness going on. Imagine the energy!

Anti-treadmill folks, like you and me, wouldn't HAVE to do it, but for a tax cut, a lot of people may decide to get healthy.

I'm writing a letter to someone about this immediately.

VETERAN

Saturday, September 6, 2003 3:26 AM

Checked my calendar, to make sure it's not April first. Seriously, I've seen television spots where people have hooked up stationary bikes to generators to charge batteries which provide power for TV sets. And one of the high end gadget shops has a pedal power device for your computer. Anyway, I checked a the internet and found a link with a good diagram and photos of a working model:

http://myweb.cableone.net/adamsmed2/page6.html

SERGEANTX

Saturday, September 6, 2003 5:28 AM

Its always April 1st where Succatash lives!

SergeantX

"..and here's to all the dreamers, may our open hearts find rest." -- Nanci Griffith

SUCCATASH

Saturday, September 6, 2003 5:33 AM

The only thing more important than my "Treadmill" theory is Haken's "Catch the Lightning" theory he's been working on. We'll keep everyone posted. Just don't forget that you heard it first on FFF.

Veteran, that's a cool link. Thanks. It's all just a little too easy....

SUCCATASH

Saturday, September 6, 2003 6:07 AM

Oh, by the way, how do you think Haken lost all his hair? It wasn't naturally, I assure you. It was his dangerous theory.

DRAKON

Saturday, September 6, 2003 8:39 AM

It is my understanding that the problem was not the fact there was no energy. The problem was the distribution of it got screwed up. As I recall, the grid was only at about 80 percent capacity when the lights went out.

"my kind of stupid"

MANIACNUMBERONE

Saturday, September 6, 2003 8:52 AM

I bet the whole blackout was all the fault of some dumbass who forgot to push a button because he fell asleep on the job.

TRAGICSTORY

Saturday, September 6, 2003 10:10 AM

Do any of you guys read ubersoft? Besides being on of the funniest webcomcs out there, there was a REALLY eire coincidence (sp?) between the comic and the black out!

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"Societies are supported by human activity, therefore they are constantly threatened by the human facts of self-intrest and stupidity." --Peter Berger

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