Fuel cell uses human blood
by jojokaffe on Apr.22, 2009, under Robots
Seriously?
SERIOUSLY?!@?
In what universe is this a good idea? Let’s make humans food for robots! Freaking vampire robots, that’s what we need!
I think I saw this movie. It was called ‘The Matrix’.
Yeast cells feeding on the glucose in human blood might one day power implants such as pacemakers. A living source of power that is able to regenerate itself would eliminate the need for regular operations to replace batteries.
A team at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada, has created tiny microbial fuel cells by encapsulating yeast cells in a flexible capsule. They went on to show the fuel cells can generate power from a drop of human blood plasma.
