MIT students power supercomputers with bicycles

An excerpt from the article highlighting the achievement :

"The ten cyclists pedalled their bikes, set on stands, with the wheels driving dynamos to generate direct current power which was converted into the alternating current needed. The supercomputer modelled a nuclear fusion reaction."

Read the full article at

http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php?id=312084283

This is not the first time something of this sort is being done. For a good list of things that are being done refer to http://freeenergynews.com/