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DARPA To Turn Humans Into Batteries
DARPA is working on a project that will convert energy from the human body to power a variety of military gadgets. From the article: "Obviously, our bodies generate heat — thermal energy. They also produce vibrations when we move — kinetic energy. Both forms of energy can be converted into electricity. Anantha Chandrakasan, an MIT electrical engineering professor, who is working on the problem with a former student named Yogesh Ramadass, says the challenge is to harvest adequate amounts of power from the body and then efficiently direct it to the device that needs it." If I remember the movie correctly, this didn't turn out so well for the humans.
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I'm a D Cell battery!
My work here is dung.
Because doing that would make farting both a socially acceptable behavior and a viable industry.
Al Gore or AI Gore?
Dammit, I need serifs!!! At least we don't have to worry about A1 Gore.
Because even without the malaria health-risks mosquito's are way to hard to milk...
OK, so humans become mobile power sources.
I really don't want to see a guy on the side of the road with wires shoved up his arse trying to jump his car to start because his battery is dead.
*clench* "Try it now!"
That said, I guess the BDSM scene can now do something useful after attaching the alligator clamps to their nipples.
Because harvesting energy from stupidity isn't a trivial task.
Auditorium A/C designers know that - about one watt per kilogram resting, triple that when aerobic. Many portable electronics devices can run off a few percent of that energy. It would be nice to capture that energy mechanically, thermally, or chemically.
Sir, what exactly do you have in mind? :)
Instruction manual told you to put the anode where?!
A government is a body of people notably ungoverned - AC
Dura-cell is PEOPLE! (said in best Charlton Heston voice)
Wearables? You mean like babies and midgets? Where do you plug in?
WTF? Over?
Some men are AAA, some are lantern batteries.
Have gnu, will travel.