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>I thought the idea was to provide an energy source significantly larger
>than the normal supply of free-floating ATP, so that you could run lots of
>other nano-gadgets?
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>All of the more advanced uses of Drextech will give you a serious heat
>dissipation problem. I've seen energy dissipation figures as high as
>several hundred kilowatts per cc for the more ambitious devices (fast
>assembler systems, computers, synthetic muscles, etc.). In particular,
>medical assembler / dissassembler systems that work significantly faster
>than normal metabolic functions are going to quickly run into problems.
Now if they'd only give off oxygen as a by-product...
Emlyn
>What kinds of low-power applications are you thinking of?
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>Billy Brown
>ewbrownv@mindspring.com