From: Adrian Tymes (wingcat@pacbell.net)
Date: Sun Mar 30 2003 - 11:19:32 MST
--- Hal Finney <hal@finney.org> wrote:
> Anders forwards:
> >
>
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2003/03/030328073035.htm
> >
>
http://www.brown.edu/Administration/George_Street_Journal/vol27/27GSJ22b.html
>
> It's strange - these articles are quite unclear
> about how exactly these
> fuel cells would work in the body. They hint very
> obliquely that the fuel
> cells might generate power from blood, but they
> never come out and say it!
Actually, the major advance they seem to be announcing
is the ability to operate without membrane, instead
relying on the liquids within the cells to not mix.
But they seem to be ignoring problems of different
pressures, cross-contamination (just because the
fluids
don't mix doesn't mean impurities in each fluid
won't),
and other things that having a solid barrier also
prevents. I didn't get the impression it was about
blood at all.
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