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Metabolizable electricity for humans
Em wireless chargers can be used to supply humans with energy with a modification to human biology, do that then much food is replaced with higher energy efficiency and the end of hunger as a feeling and a social influencer | |
Electromagnetic(EM) phone chargers radiate EM then the
phones pick it up and fill up the batteries.
I think the same can be done with humans, creating new
energy efficiency at kilocalorie production. This also
frees
humans from the social and environmental effects of
producing food, improving
human well being.
A variety of bacteria produce little magnetite internal
objects. Improving the shape of these to absorb specific
EM energies and linking the new excess electrons to
regenerating ATP is one system to turn EM into ATP.
Genetically engineer humans to have this capability,
making near sufficient nutrition from just electricity.
Another possibility, although I could just be being
optimistic, is to try putting electricity through an
electric
eel and see if it generates ATP or other cellular energy
at
the eel. Then genetically engineer that less research-
intensive system into humans.
Interestingly Dave Pearce, who wrote the hedonistic
imperative, which is much deeper than "wonderful and
getting better is achievable and also a duty" but has
elements of that, advocates the idea of all species being
happy. One thing supporting this is an end to all forms of
predation and ending hunger. Nonhuman animals
engineered to live off of
electricity could mingle freely without risk or incentive
to
eat each other, improving their lives. I support Dave
Pearce' hedonistic imperative.
Dave Pearce' Hedonistic Imperative
http://www.hedweb.org
[beanangel, Dec 02 2018]
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// Nonhuman animals engineered to live off of electricity could mingle freely without risk or incentive to eat each other, // |
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This ignores the typical response of all sentient life to hate - and immediately attempt to destroy - everything perceived as "other", even if it's not usable as a food source. |
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Although more sophisticated and benevolent cybernetic life forms don't seek to destroy other sentient life forms - merely to add their technological and biological distinctiveness to their own. You will be Assimilated. Resistance is futile. |
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// improving their lives. // |
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Strength through diversity was always an admirable
Borg quality. |
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We could always build battery-powered robotic
kitties. |
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Will free-floating ATP in the bloodstream get used? Can cells be
instructed or engineered to put their ADP into the bloodstream? Do
we have a technological way to turn ADP into ATP? |
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If so, just implant a device that uses an induction coil to pick up
power from any Qi charger and turn ADP into ATP. Then you can
recharge your body by putting your hand on a charger, at a rate of
5 W less inefficiencies. (I suggest the hand not just because it's
convenient, but because its high surface area-to-volume ratio
makes dissipation of waste heat easier.) |
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This is all well and good until the engineered magnetite
particles get old and Apple throttles the performance. |
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I should note, in regard to my above suggestion, that the
human body's idle power consumption is around 100 W
(IIRC). |
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Objectively, there would still be competition for scarce energy
resources, which the unduly blissed-out would tend to lose.
Even Freud grudgingly recognised a "reality principle" as well as
a "pleasure principle". |
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Subjectively, it's hard to see how Pearce's project differs from
taking opiates until you die. |
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Yes, I know, I'm the life and soul of the party. |
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One small, bijou snagette with this idea is that calories are
only a small part of the human dietary requirement. You'll
also need at least a handful of essential amino acids, some
fibre, a bunch of vitamins and trace elements, and a bunch of
other stuff. They could probably be delivered by email
(though some of it would presumably be Spam). |
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Well, at least Spam would provide protein, fat and salt, along with a swarm of nourishing E-numbers. |
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If it was fried, preferably in batter, it could also deliver some carbohydrate, and part of the Minimum Daily Requirement of burnt crunchy bits (one of the essential food groups). |
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// build battery-powered robotic kitties // |
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Oh, please do. When we ran out of real ones, we built several large batches - but even a bit of target practice expends them at a catastrophic rate. |
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Using a holodeck is a poor substitute... the system never quite gets right that authentic smell of charred fur. |
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