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Human Power For Human Upgrades
Dozix007 writes "The human body, like any other machine requires energy to operate.
However, during operation we release residual heat which can be used
for power. Many people who rely on pacemakers and other artifical
devices in their bodies may recieve 'upgrades' to avert the many surgeries per. year to replace dead and dying
batteries. Not quite the Matrix yet, but we are getting there."
This is a dupe from a couple days ago... still a semi-interesting read if you missed it.
How this is related to Matrix?
(I have seen only the first movie).
... the person with this technology in them spontaneously combusts?
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Although we generate heat, on a microscopic level, our bodies need more energy put in that it can give out. All the food you eat requires energy put in to be produced and we get that energy out of the food. If any significant portion of that energy were drained, our bodies would have problems and eventually shut down. The heat from our bodies is generated collectively from individual cellular mitochondria.
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Yes, yes, and this is why, fundamentally, the Matrix doesn't really make sense.
But I really doubt the 100 microwatts of power they are trying for will be significant enough to be noticed--your body gives off about 100 watts of radiation as it is.
Why does this idea of body-generated electricity conjure up images of weary airport travelers sitting in cheap plastic chairs, power cords running from their laptops up their legs, connecting to heat collecting anal probes, charging said laptops for yet another round of Whack-a-Mole, business style?
Oy, and I thought the world was a strange place already.
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Except it's a lot easier to eat a few crackers than to undergo surgery to replace a battery.
I've thought about this kind of thing for use in laptops. Nanotechnology has been improving the conversion of heat to energy, and they work by being placed in a temperature differential (on a hot surface with cooler air surrounding it). If put in a laptop for example they could conceivably be located all over the place to provide power to things like fans and other smaller devices and overall help lengthen battery life some. We may never know how well it would work until someone tries it, but I bet it would be an interesting application in portable computers.
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Except it's a lot easier to eat a few crackers than to undergo surgery to replace a battery.
You know, they used to use Plutonium to prevent this sort of problem. It was only after the whole Chernobyl scare that companies stopped producing pacemakers with long-life power sources. Sometimes I wonder how much of our technological "progression" is nothing more than an illusion.
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...although you have to wonder what happens if something breaks. Doesn't the human heart use electrical pulses to actuate it's muscles? What happens if the person wearing this gets electrocuted by an outside source?
But taking heat from our bodies to produce energy would prompt our bodies to produce more energy thus consuming more resources.
Don't think of it that way...think of it as a potential weight loss method, like making you pedal a stationary bike to generate the energy to run your laptop or Game Boy.
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