If you haven't seen this commercial from an eon ago: https://youtu.be/Z8yW5cyXXRc

This joke is so old it owns a home.

Ba dum tss.

Neither is falling when connected to the generator. That's nature's cruel joke; the cat-bread dynamo is limitless energy but it can never be harnessed.

There’s a fatal flaw in the premise. It is impossible to fasten something to a cat.

nope. The cat would land on its feet, then instantly roll around to spread the butter on your carpet.

I'm concerned about how the generator is connected to that poor cat

Where are you attaching that shaft?! Poor cat!

Problem engineers?

Who else thought that was an Arduino?

Except that's the engine part of the generator, which is the part that spins the alternator, which is the part that generates electricity.

So you're just attaching a make spinny part to another make spinny part, which cancel each other out so the cat just remains stationary as long as the engine runs, creating zero electricity.

Cat-bread would keep rotating and never falls as it falls to the ground

The Omelas generator

This brings up some interesting moral questions