But Australian entrepreneur Roger Davey has proposed using this simple fact of physics to create vast amounts of clean energy without burning any carbon fuels. Several innovative gyms are popping up that convert human energy into useable electricity. So while you’re busy sweating it out, your efforts are creating electricity to power the exercise console and supplement the electrical juice it takes to keep the overhead lights on. One of them, in Hong Kong, has exercise machines that look perfectly ordinary from the outside, but have generators inside that create energy from movement. Here, for your reading enjoyment, are 10 of the wackier ideas for alternative energy. At Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands, researchers are working on a novel, albeit somewhat distasteful, alternative to fossil fuels. There are numerous benefits to this approach: You can get a little help in the kitchen and a chance to spend more time with your children, too.

EnviroMission’s improved $750 million design calls for the tower to be built from sturdier, more resilient steel and cement, which wouldn’t need to depend on support cables, and company officials say it would last for 80 years, far longer than the average life of most conventional solar-generating facilities. And in Illinois, a company that specialized in recycling toxic waste was found to have illegally stored plenty of it in abandoned buildings in poor areas of Chicago. Some of these energy sources, like solar power, hybrid-electric vehicles and small, hand-powered gadgets have already caught on. Instead of relying on solar panels to convert the sun’s energy to electricity, the solar updraft tower would use a large, translucent sloping canopy, about as wide as a football field, to trap the sun’s heat like a greenhouse. The hot air in the tent would reach a scorching 194 degrees Fahrenheit (90 degrees Celsius) and would flow into and up through the tower. According to EnviroMission, which already has worked a deal to resell its electricity to a southern California utility company, the small amount of carbon pollution created by the manufacture and shipment of the cement and other materials needed to build the tower would be offset after two-and-a-half years of power generation.

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