I recently watched The Magic Faraway Tree, in which Andrew Garfield plays a dad with dreams about making homegrown tomato sauce in the country. I was particularly charmed by a scene in which Garfield generates enough electricity for his tween daughter to enjoy a shonky video call via pedalling a busted-up bike alone. Well, one YouTube creator has leveraged this thrifty approach to energy generation in a whole new way.
"Every year you're spending thousands and thousands of watt-hours to simply power the fan that cools your CPU," YouTube creator mryeester began in a recent video, "Which got me thinking, what if we could manually cool our computer with human grit and determination?" Opting to manually turn his CPU fan via the revolution of his bike wheels, you should probably add 'buckets of sweat' to that equation too.
