People are essentially internal combustion engines that burn food. Trying to capture that energy in ways that increases the load on us just causes us to need more calories. That’s counter productive as you could just burn said food itself to get energy, and agriculture is an energy and environmentally intensive industry to begin with.
Let work the people for electricity
https://www.pavegen.com/blog/kinetic-pavements
https://www.lboro.ac.uk/news-events/news/2022/april/wearable-material-generates-electricity/
https://spj.science.org/doi/10.34133/2020/7158953
People are essentially internal combustion engines that burn food. Trying to capture that energy in ways that increases the load on us just causes us to need more calories. That’s counter productive as you could just burn said food itself to get energy, and agriculture is an energy and environmentally intensive industry to begin with.