Regardless of whatever system, when things get difficult, you have to increase effort,

otherwise things would stop working.

True, but to what extent do you have to increase effort. You could increase a little bit
and you could increase it significantly thats what I wanted to know, thanks though!

BTW, you referred to "the generator" in the OP in a way that implied you have an
actual generator you're experimenting with. If you actually have a real generator, you
can just read the specs off the nameplate or manufacturer's spec sheet to get clearer
and more relevant answers to this!
I'd rather understand the physics of it perfectly. If you'd like to just read
and follow go ahead.
But I'd like to read,test,see, etc... To understand how things work.
There's a little experiment my college physics prof did to start off a lesson on
Newton's laws: He took the largest guy and smallest girl in the class and put them on
skateboards, facing each other. He told them both to push on the other as hard as they
could, then asked the class which one pushed on the other harder.

The answer? They both pushed on each other with the same force. They have to.
Forces come in pairs.

So too with conservation of energy. You cannot apply 1000J to an ideal generator and
not have a load absorb it. You can't say 1000J is being generated, but say that it isn't
going anywhere. The energy has to go somewhere. One will command the other, but
both will end up equal.

What happens with a generator not connected to a load is you find there is very little
torque required to spin it. It will therefore neither generate nor absorb much energy.

Take, for example, a car engine in neutral. If you push the gas pedal down and there is
no rev limiter, with the car in neutral, there is nothing applying a torque against the
motor. So the engine just keeps spinning faster and faster until it destroys itself unless
internal losses end up absorbing the power.

Take, for example, a windmill: If a windmill generator has a problem and stops
generating power, the windmill may just start spinning faster and faster until it
destroys itself because there is no torque applied against the rotation to keep it
spinning at a constant rate.
Due to the above error, this is just a wrongly worded question. You can't say a
generator is producing 1000J (btw, it would really have to be Watts, but anyway....)
that aren't going anywhere and then you apply a 1000J load to it. Either it was
producing 1000J before and is now producing 2000J or it was producing nothing and
now 1000J or it was and still is producing 1000J.

The question has to be fixed before the answer can be meaningful.

That's all fine, but you aren't saying anything clear about what is being generated
versus the load in that example. You haven't fully developed the example.