Most of these response posts are psuedo scientific, poorly thought out, and dead wrong. Proteins are so tiny that coating something with them would make an imperceptable difference to human movement. Think about it. It's like coating a suit with film of soap. But it's been scientifically proven that each protein does produce nano-watts from vibration. Vibration is ambient. It is air movement. So these proteins make power from vibration in the air, not a man moving his harm. Collection of ambient vibration is a well studied field--and Dallos says these proteins are better at it than materials we have today.
Now is it worth it? That's a different question. This is a small amount of power. So, probably not unless you want to power a tiny senor or something. But would it make the astroanut work harder? No, not unless proteins have changed properties since the last time I checked.
No that doesn't make sense. If the proteins respond to vibration and sound they are very tiny and would use the ambient energy in the air as well as wind for energy. Not the macro-movements of anstronaut. That's at too large a scale.
I think it depends on how sensitive the proteins are. If they can translate vibration into milliwatts then the skins could power sensors and things using ambient energy in the air. That's what ear hair does. So it could make sense.
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Most of these response posts are psuedo scientific, poorly thought out, and dead wrong. Proteins are so tiny that coating something with them would make an imperceptable difference to human movement. Think about it. It's like coating a suit with film of soap. But it's been scientifically proven that each protein does produce nano-watts from vibration. Vibration is ambient. It is air movement. So these proteins make power from vibration in the air, not a man moving his harm. Collection of ambient vibration is a well studied field--and Dallos says these proteins are better at it than materials we have today. Now is it worth it? That's a different question. This is a small amount of power. So, probably not unless you want to power a tiny senor or something. But would it make the astroanut work harder? No, not unless proteins have changed properties since the last time I checked.
No that doesn't make sense. If the proteins respond to vibration and sound they are very tiny and would use the ambient energy in the air as well as wind for energy. Not the macro-movements of anstronaut. That's at too large a scale.
I think it depends on how sensitive the proteins are. If they can translate vibration into milliwatts then the skins could power sensors and things using ambient energy in the air. That's what ear hair does. So it could make sense.