Another cloudy day means I have to post fast. My main battery remains empty. My backup battery is running out. The forecast was for the clouds to break before the sun set, but they didn’t.

I’m posting about innovation and creativity because I’ve found several places selling or developing human-powered generators. To cook, heat an apartment, operate an elevator, or other operations that require more power than humans can output for long, they don’t work, but to power a phone or laptop, a generator attached to a stationary bike or rowing machine would do fine for converting sugar and fat in fruit and vegetables to battery energy.

Alas, the demand for energy is met through sources that violate the US Constitution and Declaration of Independence, even if the US government isn’t enforcing them. That is, they pollute and deplete, which violate the consent of the governed, that no person shall be deprived of life, liberty, and property without due process of law, and the property rights as understood by the Founders and popular understanding.

Thus, the only bike generators I find online cost more than I can afford and way more than they’d cost if the market weren’t ruined by suppliers operating outside a free market, the way slave-produced cotton undersold free-labor-produced cotton.

There are lots of stationary bike-based generator near-solutions. I prefer rowing and have a great rower, so would prefer something I can add to it.

Here’s someone who built a rower generator and their video:

Here’s a person who is working on building a commercial attachment for the rower I have, but it remains in development after years. I check in with them every year or so, but I think they stopped working on it.

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Here’s a place that sells rowing machines and stationary bikes with generators built in.

Here’s another video of someone who did it himself:

There is a market, but coercive-market products destroy it

If people couldn’t get coercive-market power, the demand for what I’m looking for would lead people to develop the above near-solutions into affordable, effective products.

What I’m missing is what a free market would deliver. Instead, I live in a nation that doesn’t enforce its own Constitution, as it didn’t before the Civil War (slavery violates the fifth amendment, as does depriving Native Americans of their land. Depriving any adult of the right to vote violates the consent of the governed).

Now I have to power down so I don’t reach where my computer powers down on its own.

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