Timeline for Body as a power supply
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| Jun 30, 2016 at 18:41 | comment | added | Loïc Faure-Lacroix | @DmitryGrigoryev yes, I thought of that, but that sounds pointless if it works in certain conditions. | |
| Jun 30, 2016 at 14:12 | comment | added | pjc50 | There is actually serious research on this, for powering medical systems embedded in the body. | |
| Jun 30, 2016 at 11:47 | comment | added | old_timer | you are better off trying to convert our motion or something in shoes that we step on. and still wont be a whole lot. Energy cannot be created nor destroyed, so no it wouldnt be free you steal energy from the body you have to compensate for it by consuming that much more. I like the peltier watch thing, but not sure it would power a watch. | |
| Jun 30, 2016 at 11:47 | comment | added | Dmitry Grigoryev | @efox29 That scene is in the movie only to give the impression that there is a purpose in human existence. Oh well, it's fiction movie after all. | |
| Jun 30, 2016 at 11:43 | comment | added | efox29 | @DmitryGrigoryev get a bunch of us together and we can power robots. See IEEE '99 paper 'The Matrix' | |
| Jun 30, 2016 at 11:39 | comment | added | Dmitry Grigoryev | Short answer: yes, we produce electricity (and absorb some AC via capacitive coupling), and no, it's not enough for anything useful. A much better bet would be to install a Peltier element in the watch, but that would only work in winter. | |
| Jun 30, 2016 at 11:39 | answer | added | Andy aka | timeline score: 4 | |
| Jun 30, 2016 at 11:33 | history | asked | Loïc Faure-Lacroix | CC BY-SA 3.0 |