Charge your phone when the power is out

If you are ‘serviced’ by Jemez Electric, then you’ve likely noticed the power has gone out a few times this year. Even in cities the power can go out, but rural service definitely has this issue more frequently. We have a bunch of battery backup devices, battery charging blocks, and a generator for a longer outage. It’s good to be prepared.
 
I was reading an article on how to charge your phone when the power goes out. You can read it HERE. 

It has some obvious suggestions, like battery backups, or getting in your car and charging there, which I actually had not considered. But there was also a wood burning stove that has a built in charger that gets fed from the heat. That was very cool, though a bit on the spendy side. Still, our stove is electric and Carol cannot be without coffee in the morning, so it might be a good investment.
 
There are those crank type emergency radios that generally come with a USB charging slot, so that might be an idea. It seems like it would require a lot of cranking though. I wonder if they make an exercise bike that can charge a battery? That wouldn’t be a bad idea.
 
Something to keep in mind also, generally speaking, a landline is self powered, so that phone should still work in a power outage, though you’d also need a non-electric ‘old timey’ phone to use on it, and not a cordless or powered one.