Check out this device ....
http://boingboing.net/2008/02/19/led-lamp-uses-grandf.html
Anyone think we could run our homes using a grandfather clock system to run a generator?
maybe combine it with a wind generator or couple of solar panels to rewind it?
or even a giant hamster wheel for humans... could be the new tread mill of the future...
just a half baked thought... from a mind that is over half baked...