A Step Closer to the Matrix?

Device could produce electricity from human blood.

That is SO rad!

I wanna Vampire under the hood of my car.
The 2004 Barnabus LX. Style. Comfort. Sharp pointy teeth.

Exciting times, my friend.

like Jamie Zawinski always says:

I, for one, welcome our robot masters.

I fully endorse any new technology that can either be directy aplied to porn or to the furtherment of evil.


The MJ seal of approval.

It's about time. I've always wanted to become a cyborg before I died.

Awesome.

yay! this rawks! ::adds it to list of future body mods::

i've always thought it would be cool if i could have an actual lightbulb come on over my head when i thought of something especially clever. looks like my dream is close to reality.

and all the cool implications for cybernetics. but really, the lightbulb is more important.

Wow, that's cool. It's also a nice way to for America to simultaneously solve two crises - the obesity epidemic and the power shortage. Just implant all obese people with one of these generators and have them plug themselves into the power grid. We'll get a bunch of extra electricity and they'll lose weight at the same time. Brilliant.

new fast food business model: give the food away and force the customer to plug in to their power station while eating. perfect.

Watch your step, even closer still...

http://www.healthscout.com/static/news/515490.html

I want to plug that thing into this thing:

http://mixedreality.nus.edu.sg/research-HP-infor.htm

hmm. The human battery thing is interesting, but I would like to direct your attention elsewhere to a more universally important form of energy. Give it a look.
http://www.cheniere.org/

Zero-point energy, right?

Yeah, good luck. There's no way that's practical.

Also, the look of that site absolutely screams "crackpot con."

[Edited on Nov 30, 2003 by ticktockticktock]

I used to think of poor and orphaned children solely as a food source... It's good to know that someday I'll be able to line them up and have them power my entertainment system.

But until then....

I think I want Italian tonight...

Before you put too much stock in his ideas, you might want to check this out.

By no means am I completely discounting your disbelief, however many areas of zero point energy, and the current development of it are not to be lazily passed over, but are to be reviewed with wide eyes and as much attention as possible.
A few researchers and scientists in this area are so well docuemented and proven that they should not be ignored.
If there is no initial interest-then there wll be no investigation, there will be no research to replicate. Your interest will spark the urge to replicate. If there is interest, research, and no replication, then that fact should be published and disseminated with integrity. If there are witnesses to the results and the results were or are repeatable, then I feel the fault and blame lies with the critic and not with the researcher. Conventional science already makes it hard enough on scientists and researchers who are outside of the mainstream, and meanwhile the goverment blatantly funds ludicrous amounts on reserach that is going nowhere, and I done see a comment about that. Everyone with enough discriminating power and intelligence must demand that these experiments and patents of free energy be tested and with an open mind.
There researchers that deserve the most amount of attention at the moment are...
Dr. Randall Mills (Catalytic Hydrogen Collapse CHC)
Davis, Barry (Davis Tidal Turbine)
V.V.Studennikov (Electrohydrogen Generator)
Ewing, David and Walt Myers (Harmonic Frequency Generator Cricuit)
Thomas Bearden (Motionless Electromagnetic Generator)

And these are only a few of many worth looking into.
If ignorance was a good enough reason not to try, the light bulb would have never been invented and the Earth would still be flat. Let us be judged by our work and repeatable results and not by hasty words. If some of these works turn out to be not valid, so be it. Let it be known, and let's move forward with integrity. We are all looking for the next big breathrough in modern physics to assist us in solving the escalating energy and environment crises. Do something to promote and encourage the continuation of these rearchers and these works! If you dont do it, who will? If not now, when?

[Edited on Nov 30, 2003 by alhim]

Oh, by all means, I'm not saying that zero point energy as a power source is impossible. I'm not qualified to say either way, what I am saying is what you've already said - if people are to go about studying something like it then they need to be able to write their results in such a way that they're reproducible (or at least produce a device that does what it claims to do). There's lots of exciting research going on, some of which is funded by the government, some which is not. Grand ideas almost never come all at once (even Einstein's relativity was initially rejected) but slowly, as more and more people become convinced, they develop a momentum of their own. It's up to the people behind the ideas to offer rational proofs of their ideas to slowly win over the establishment.

Yeah, I agree that ZPE does exist in theory, but I've yet to hear of any actual, practical way of harnessing it. That's all I'm saying. More research is definitely warranted, but I doubt it'll produce much in the way of results.

[Edited on Nov 30, 2003 by ticktockticktock]

Agreed, nfor the most part.
And as for the info discounting Col. Thomas Bearden, it was through some of the same writings against Thomas Bearden that I actually became aware of him in the first place. And so with curiosity I read two of his books, and though my opinion is not made up on him as of yet, I would have to say that there is way more going for him than against him. But, whatever, Im no physicist.

[Edited on Nov 30, 2003 by alhim]

Who is in turn slightly paraphrasing Kent Brockman's "And I, for one, welcome our new insect overlords." Like most things, you heard it on The Simpsons first (1F13).

And speaking of The Simpsons, and appropriate to this thread, "In this house, we obey the laws of thermodynamics!" (2F19)

[Edited on Nov 30, 2003 by kchrist]

ZPE, as promoted by Bearden and his fellow crackpots, most probably violates the second law of thermodynamics. One of the many, many results that comes directly out of the second law is that in order to get work from a resevoir of energy, you must have a lower energy state for the that resevoir to go to after you have extracted your energy. ZPE, as presented by Bearden and Co, frankly and unapologetically violates this principle.