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Re: Alternate Power Source

From: Mark Willis <>
Date: Tue, 02 Mar 1999 20:05:50 -0800

Sorta what I thought (I'm giving up tonight and taking something to
stop this headache, it's less at least.)

  Now, if you took a butane lighter or an alcohol burner's flame & set
it on "TORCH", you could get some power from that with a thermocouple
array, with less chance of discomfort...

  Mark

Tim Gray wrote:
> 
> using a peltier junction or thermocouple to generate electrical energy can
> work but using the human body for this will not.  Example. if the
> temperature outside is 30 degrees, your external temperature is 85, that
> heat sink pasted to your skin will cause extreme pain in about 5-10
> minutes. One end is on your skin and the other is open to the cold air. In
> order to make it comfortable for the user you have to sacrifice power
> generation. which will make the unit un-useable. Your body requires the
> nice regulation that it does on it's own for heat loss. increasing the
> speed one loses heat and hypothermia kicks in, slow down the rate of heat
> loss and heat stroke kicks in.
> 
> ------------------
> So when is the development team going to release human 3.0 beta?
> 
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