The University of Michigan has made some impressive strides in the area of human generated electricity.

Their latest prototype is a knee brace that harnesses the energy normally lost when the knee is bent. It can produce up to 5 watts of power, which would be enough juice to run 10 mobile phones.

It would be interesting to see how much electricity the average person generates over the course of a day?

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About us: Anna Hess and Mark Hamilton spent over a decade living self-sufficiently in the mountains of Virginia before moving north to start over from scratch in the foothills of Ohio. They've experimented with permaculture, no-till gardening, trailersteading, home-based microbusinesses and much more, writing about their adventures in both blogs and books.



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