i suspect somebody has done it already -- there are enough high-tech savvy people who're also environmentally concerned that there's bound to be individual solutions for this.

once my OLPC XO gets here, i'll look into crank power for it; i think it'd be cool to have a setup like that, and _that_ machine is made to run energy-efficiently.

egads, now i feel all privileged. it's sorta perverted to talk about how "cool" it'd be to manually power a laptop made for kids in developing nations.