
Originally Posted by
GLC1968
You can buy kits to transform your trainer into a power generator. I had visions of using one to charge up our Prius and then driving using pedal power (purely novelty - the concept is clearly not efficient).
We have a hand-crank grain mill, ice cream maker and cream separator....eventually, we plan to use the bike to operate all of them (which would be way more efficient than using the hand-crank). It's on our list of projects (unfortunately, this list is about three miles long....).