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Originally Posted by Delta Flyer
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An idea I had (although the ACLU would never allow it to happen) would be to use prison inmates for energy generation. Consider this: During the day, prison inmates don't do much other than watching TV, eating, and killing/raping each other. If you constructed an array of Stairmaster-like devices, you could make these career criminals run on these machines for 6-8 hours per day.
They could be offered time-off of high energy generation (instead of time-off for good behavior).
I was thinking, too, that prison inmates could be forced to sleep in little tubes which could capture excess body heat and convert it to electricity.
I wonder how much power could be generated by using a class of people who are otherwise useless?
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