On Tue, Jul 03, 2001 at 01:36:21PM +0000, Charles J Knight thus spake: > P.S. Most of the body's fluids can act as electrolytes, and the > heart doesn't need a continuous charge, but only "pulses." Might > it be possible to do something like the BEAM guys do, storing up > a charge and then "pulsing" it through an impeller pump? > > What're the technical problems here, people? Other than the > obvious ones of reliability and rejection... Power. You have to expend energy to move the mass of blood..and that not counting friction, back-pressurei, and inefficiency through heat loss. Eric LaForest -- Subscription/unsubscription/info requests: send e-mail with subject of "subscribe", "unsubscribe", or "info" toWear-Hard Mailing List Archive (searchable): http://wearables.blu.org please, Please, *PLEASE* don't subscribe through a forward/false domain
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