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On that train of thought, I wonder if the human body produces enough heat for it. Imagine a radio player that just has to touch your skin to work (after proper
by sukuriant 15y ago
On that train of thought, I wonder if the human body produces enough heat for it. Imagine a radio player that just has to touch your skin to work (after proper safety evaluations, of course).
Briefly ignoring Mark of the Beast sort of implications, this has some amazing, useful potential
- dunham 15y agoImagine what you could do with the heat that a macbook puts out.
- sukuriant 15y agoHaha, or an old AMD processor. I was mentioning body heat because we generally ~automatically~ generate that, and provide fuel, because we're always eating and putting off body heat, unless we're really ill. It'd be (functionally) free energy.
- gojomo 15y agoI have often noticed at conferences groups of somewhat overweight techies, clustered around a limited number of electrical outlets, to power their laptops. I've thought to myself, "these people have too little outlet and laptop energy, and too much energy stored in their bodies." Of course the next step should be obvious: what if we had a power adapter that could plug directly into excess body fat? Lose weight and extend your battery life! Eat all you want and work it off in a marathon unplugged session of 'Angry Birds'! This new heat-to-electricity-pathway brings us a tiny step closer to that dream.
- kragen 15y agoPhotovoltaic cells need to be cooler than an incandescent light source in order to work at all, and substantially cooler to work with reasonable efficiency.
- sukuriant 15y agoSo what's wrong with 98.6?