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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.
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.