Your body, the battery: Powering gadgets from human “biofuel”
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#2I've seen this documentary, comes in three parts, the fist one is great, the other two less so. I seem to recall a particularly vexing cave rave scene, which, to this day, makes no particular sense to me. As you were.
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#3Best diet ever. I wonder how many people would abuse this and crank everything up to 11 just to burn calories.
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#4I'm surprised they don't mention methane. Given that a natural byproduct of e.coli is methane as it reduces organic waste in your intestine, a fuel cell which could transfer oxygen from the blood and methane from the bowel would potentially generate milliwatt or two. As I recall there was some work on a methane recapture facility for grazing animals as a way of powering remote monitoring as well. Easy to joke about too, "Honey, pull my finger, I need to charge my phone."
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#5I'm surprised they don't mention methane. Given that a natural byproduct of e.coli is methane as it reduces organic waste in your intestine, a fuel cell which could transfer oxygen from the blood and methane from the bowel would potentially generate milliwatt or two. As I recall there was some work on a methane recapture facility for grazing animals as a way of powering remote monitoring as well. Easy to joke about t…
Messing with the gut is really dangerous, your probably far better off just harvesting some sugars from the blood stream than trying to use methane.
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#6Best diet ever. I wonder how many people would abuse this and crank everything up to 11 just to burn calories.
Assuming just for a second that they could do it relatively safely, why shouldn't they?
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#7I can't wait for this stuff to come out! It'll be so neat.
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#8Best diet ever. I wonder how many people would abuse this and crank everything up to 11 just to burn calories.
Assuming just for a second that they could do it relatively safely, why shouldn't they?
Possibly because they will figure out a way to bypass any safety requirements and maybe hurt themselves which usually happens with most technology. People will attempt to dive into rushing water when they lose their phones.
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#9Best diet ever. I wonder how many people would abuse this and crank everything up to 11 just to burn calories.
Assuming just for a second that they could do it relatively safely, why shouldn't they?
under the supervision of a qualified doctor and a bio-engineer, sure, go for it. I think the guy you replied to was talking about a more "hacker" approach. And keep in mind no hacker worth his salt has ever gotten where they have in life without frying a few circuits or crashing a server.
"If at first you don't succeed, then hacking your own organs and/or skydiving are probably not for you"
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#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
Assuming just for a second that they could do it relatively safely, why shouldn't they?
Possibly because they will figure out a way to bypass any safety requirements and maybe hurt themselves which usually happens with most technology. People will attempt to dive into rushing water when they lose their phones.
If they're going to hurt themselves voluntarily, I am of the opinion that we should let them