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I had this idea 30 years ago lol. Bicycling in headwinds in windy and flat Denmark gives you a lot of time to think of dumb shit like that, like what if I put small wind turbines on my bike which generated electricity to give me a boost?
We've had windmills as part of the landscape here for a long time after all, so it wasn't exactly rocket science to think that one up.
Wind being an outside source of energy can actually make this work. As long as the wind is blowing, not just your own motion making it feel windy.
Actually, that jostled my memory a bit, I just remembered that I saw a veritasium video about this a month ago or so, while it wasn't about generating electricity and using that for a motor, but just straight up wind to mechanical energy.