Human power idea #2

[utilitarian]

If you took a one megawatt generator and hooked it up to a large enough wheel, even the force of one person pushing the (VERY large) wheel would be able to spin the generator at optimal speed (to generate 1 megawatt constantly).

I don't think you are getting it.  To make the scenario above work, the circle would be so large that it would take the person days and days to make enough revolutions to generate the requisite amount of power.  So if (and I do not swear to this figure) the calculation is that it takes 50 man-days of pedaling effort to generate one day's worth of electricity for a house, there is no way to cheat this equation.

[Creativity]

utilitarian has right.

u will have to push with less force,but u will also have to walk longer distance when pushing...in the end its the same work done.
just build yourself a Minto wheel and use the sun to do your slavery 

[tmpcbtc]

To make the scenario above work, the circle would be so large that it would take the person days and days to make enough revolutions to generate the requisite amount of power.  So if (and I do not swear to this figure) the calculation is that it takes 50 man-days of pedaling effort to generate one day's worth of electricity for a house, there is no way to cheat this equation.

Yes, exactly, a very big wheel. Say it took a full day for one person to push the large wheel 1 revolution. But every second of that one day, you are still generating 1 Megawatt of energy from the quickly spinning generator.
This link
It is a very efficient form of energy.
I was trying to find the link I saw of a guy who made a modified bicycle generator. He had to make the wheel he was pushing very large to get enough torque on his generator, which required him to sit like 5 feet up in the air on the bike, but it would power all his appliances for the morning.
If you tilt the wheel sideways and push, and make the wheel bigger, you get more torque.
This works!~

[tmpcbtc]

just build yourself a Minto wheel and use the sun to do your slavery 

<a href="http://www.eskimo.com/~billb/freenrg/minto.html>Minto wheel?</a>
Yes, hmm, the Minto wheel seems to work on the same principle as those little birds that drink out of a cup of water! The question is...why haven't we built some giant Minto wheels for national energy?