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Blood-Powered Nanomachines

By sbszine

5 August 2003

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This was rejected from Slashdot, so you get to enjoy it here. Can you feel the love?

The Sydney Morning Herald is reporting that researchers have discovered a way to generate power for nanomachines using human blood. The method, devised by the Panasonic Nanotech Research Lab in Japan, proposes fuel cells that oxidise glucose in the form of blood sugar. In theory, a single human could generate 100 watts of power — if they didn’t need any of that blood sugar for themselves.

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2 Comments

sbszine

5 August 2003 at 12.17 pm

And here, a few hours later, is the version they accepted from some AC. Sigh.

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Red Wolf

5 August 2003 at 2.48 pm

Usually means someone got in ahead of you. They can sit on stories for a while

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