I was out with my Mom and Dad  the other day hitting all the discount stores in Chatham, like bibles for missions and Sally Ann ( Salvation Army). At one of the stores someone had donated an excersise machine that used arm and leg muscles to life the person's body weight against a resistance. I thought with an extremely small modification, it could be turned into a pump. If you manually pumped your water to a water tower you could convert a bit of that energy to generating Electricity when gravity took over. The electricity could be used for all kinds of things if you could store it well. Now that is the real challange. Super large inducter, capacitor circuits may be able to be used instead of chemical batteries ( notablly inefficient and dangerous to the environment, unless you used one based on copper and aluminium in human liquid waste ), in the mean time you would have presurized water going to where you need it and you got some excersise in .

 We need more low tech ideas and more efficient ways of storing and using electricity.

 Any engineers out there? Anyone ? Lets get hopping on this now while there is still time.