Re: Fuel cells for the body

From: Adrian Tymes (wingcat@pacbell.net)
Date: Sun Mar 30 2003 - 12:01:01 MST

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    --- Anders Sandberg <asa@nada.kth.se> wrote:
    > I wonder how to prevent clogging from cells and
    > other gunk? Blood has
    > always struck me as awfully messy, I would prefer to
    > have something
    > like the neat railway bundles of Freita's
    > nanocirculatory system.

    Filters. And something to automatically clean
    (scrape?) the filters off every once in a while,
    probably using stored power from the fuel cell itself.
    That's assuming you can't just get filters that
    automatically repel everything that'd stick to them,
    but as you say, blood is awfully messy, and there's
    always the potential for traces of things that aren't
    "supposed" to be there in theory but are in practice.
    ("Well, yeah, *now* I know not to drink mercury, but I
    was just a kid back then. Some of it never got out of
    my system. So, are you going to cough up a settlement
    for your product malfunctioning or do I have to take
    this to court?")



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