There are, however, plants and animals that harness mechanical energy as a survival strategy, which might amount to the same thing. For example when dandelion s

There are, however, plants and animals that harness mechanical energy as a survival strategy, which might amount to the same thing. For example when dandelion seeds get spread in the wind, or fish swimming along ocean currents. I think a good rule of thumb, given the extreme diversity of the biological world, is that if a specific biological mechanism hasn't evolved in 4 billion years of evolution there's probably a good reason for it.