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Bioelectricity ??
Topic Started: Jan 23 2008, 04:29 PM (2,124 Views)
Exiled_Blood
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What if you used creatures that already give off some form of electricity and find a way to harness it? There are three known kinds of electric animals:

(1) the one species, Electrophorus electricus, of South American electric eel,

(2) the 19 species of African electric catfish in the genera Malapterurus and Paradoxoglanis, and

(3) the 69 species of electric rays (order Torpediniformes) found around the world.

There are also reports in central Africa of an electrogenic mammal that is the size of an otter. This hasn't been proven or disproven yet.
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Yes, but what I'm talking about is mass industry soylent green-style energy. There is alot more humans than there are eels.
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Jul 1 2008, 01:26 AM
Yes, but what I'm talking about is mass industry soylent green-style energy. There is alot more humans than there are eels.
There's probably more death row inmates than eels. So, why not select them to give back to society in a positive way, not sucking up vital resources from those of us who decide not act on animal impulses.
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^ Thats the point. The thing is that there are going to be alot of people against that.
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the entire argument is moot, the laws of thermydynamics prevent bioelectricity from ever producing enough energy to even recoup the energy spent keeping the creatures alive

the whole reason we use fossil fuels is because of the energy density

it's taken millions of years of heat and pressure to produce the worlds coal and oil which is why we can get more energy from them than we expend

bio-organisms are only suitable for short-term redistribution of energy, there is no way any energy-generation scheme could produce a net gain of electricity unless you were either
A: breaking down biomass into hydrogen atoms for fusion (we don't even have fusion yet and when we do this would be the worst way ever to get fuel for it)
B: combining biomass with antimatter (we can't make antimatter so this is impossible)

neither of these would need living creatures either

the matrix is dumb, get over it
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