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I'm waiting for someone to invent the implantable chip that converts blood sugar into heat/light purely with the intention of wasting that energy. Grab enough
by Pfhreak 8y ago
I'm waiting for someone to invent the implantable chip that converts blood sugar into heat/light purely with the intention of wasting that energy.
Grab enough power to monitor blood sugar, to make sure you aren't putting someone into a coma, but otherwise just try to burn an extra few hundred calories a day.
- robotrout 8y agoThat's interesting. Seems like a low tech solution would be to give blood every day. I wonder if somebody has already invented the blood donation diet.
- simcop2387 8y agoProblem with that is that we don't replenish it fast enough for that to work. Maybe with plasma donations but I'm not sure there either.
- cleong 8y agoIt would be an enormously complex device, most of the sugar we consume gets converted into fat as we quickly cap out our "energy blocks".
- booleandilemma 8y agoWhy waste this energy? Couldn’t they devise a way to mine bitcoin with it? :)
- delecti 8y agoOh god, just what the world's food distribution problems need.
- pazimzadeh 8y agoGood idea, but I’m guessing you’d have fever as a side effect ;)
- agumonkey 8y agoorgasic
- eeZah7Ux 8y agoThen you need to radiate heat somewhere. If you heat up the blood the body will spend less energy keeping warm leading to no benefit. If you generate a lot of heat... it goes really bad.
- ClassyJacket 8y agoEasy, simply install a venting port in the patient.
- oh_sigh 8y agoThe first patient should be a congressman then, because they already have a hole they blow hot air out of.
- craftyguy 8y agoAlternatively (and arguably much less complex and much cheaper): 1) eat less, 2) exercise
- oh_sigh 8y agoYou're thinking too fancy - with our technology today, we could install a bypass valve at the pyloric sphincter that just dumps chyme into a stoma appliance/bag.