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If we could embed tiny water wheels into our veins and arteries, what is the maximum amount of power we could achieve? Assume that they will work and malfunction and clog our blood. Also, we can make them any size that we want and put them as close together as we want. How much power maximum can be generated per day? Will it be a decent amount, or not even worth it?
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If we could embed tiny water wheels into our veins and arteries, what is the maximum amount of power we could achieve? Assume that they will work and malfunction and clog our blood. Also, we can make them any size that we want and put them as close together as we want. How much power maximum can be generated per day? Will it be a decent amount, or not even worth it?
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@kingledion remember when you said my Anatomically Correct Sharknado Shark was the good-dumbest question in the Stack?
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Waterwheels work because the water gets energy from gravity. The only energy in your blood will come from your pumping heart, so unless your circulatory system is a perpetual motion device it's probably a net loss.
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If we could embed tiny water wheels into our veins and arteries, what is the maximum amount of power we could achieve? Assume that they will work and malfunction and clog our blood. Also, we can make them any size that we want and put them as close together as we want. How much power maximum can be generated per day? Will it be a decent amount, or not even worth it?
science-based biology cybernetics cyborg
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Noah Cristino
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If we could embed tiny water wheels into our veins and arteries, what is the maximum amount of power we could achieve? Assume that they will work and malfunction and clog our blood. Also, we can make them any size that we want and put them as close together as we want. How much power maximum can be generated per day? Will it be a decent amount, or not even worth it?
science-based biology cybernetics cyborg
science-based biology cybernetics cyborg
asked 1 hour ago
Noah Cristino
219111
asked 1 hour ago
Noah Cristino
219111
asked 1 hour ago
Noah Cristino
219111
asked 1 hour ago
Noah Cristino
219111
asked 1 hour ago
Noah Cristino
219111
219111
@kingledion remember when you said my Anatomically Correct Sharknado Shark was the good-dumbest question in the Stack?
– Renan
1 hour ago
3
Waterwheels work because the water gets energy from gravity. The only energy in your blood will come from your pumping heart, so unless your circulatory system is a perpetual motion device it's probably a net loss.
– Giter
1 hour ago
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@kingledion remember when you said my Anatomically Correct Sharknado Shark was the good-dumbest question in the Stack?
– Renan
1 hour ago
3
Waterwheels work because the water gets energy from gravity. The only energy in your blood will come from your pumping heart, so unless your circulatory system is a perpetual motion device it's probably a net loss.
– Giter
1 hour ago
@kingledion remember when you said my Anatomically Correct Sharknado Shark was the good-dumbest question in the Stack?
– Renan
1 hour ago
@kingledion remember when you said my Anatomically Correct Sharknado Shark was the good-dumbest question in the Stack?
– Renan
1 hour ago
3
3
Waterwheels work because the water gets energy from gravity. The only energy in your blood will come from your pumping heart, so unless your circulatory system is a perpetual motion device it's probably a net loss.
– Giter
1 hour ago
Waterwheels work because the water gets energy from gravity. The only energy in your blood will come from your pumping heart, so unless your circulatory system is a perpetual motion device it's probably a net loss.
– Giter
1 hour ago
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Since all the power that you can get is provided by the heart, the absolute maximum power that you can extract is the power provided by the heart.
This page provides some estimates to the power provided by the human heart. Most of the estimates are in the 1W - 2W range, and the only outlier (5W) seems to have enough editions reporting erroneous data as to doubt its accuracy. I would stick to the 2W upper limit.
Now, if you begin obstructing arteries with water wheels, that power will stop being used to move blood, so blood will not circulate well enough. In this case maybe the heart will start to pump more often, injecting more energy/power into the blood, until it finally cannot stand it and fails.
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Since all the power that you can get is provided by the heart, the absolute maximum power that you can extract is the power provided by the heart.
This page provides some estimates to the power provided by the human heart. Most of the estimates are in the 1W - 2W range, and the only outlier (5W) seems to have enough editions reporting erroneous data as to doubt its accuracy. I would stick to the 2W upper limit.
Now, if you begin obstructing arteries with water wheels, that power will stop being used to move blood, so blood will not circulate well enough. In this case maybe the heart will start to pump more often, injecting more energy/power into the blood, until it finally cannot stand it and fails.
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Since all the power that you can get is provided by the heart, the absolute maximum power that you can extract is the power provided by the heart.
This page provides some estimates to the power provided by the human heart. Most of the estimates are in the 1W - 2W range, and the only outlier (5W) seems to have enough editions reporting erroneous data as to doubt its accuracy. I would stick to the 2W upper limit.
Now, if you begin obstructing arteries with water wheels, that power will stop being used to move blood, so blood will not circulate well enough. In this case maybe the heart will start to pump more often, injecting more energy/power into the blood, until it finally cannot stand it and fails.
answered 1 hour ago
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Since all the power that you can get is provided by the heart, the absolute maximum power that you can extract is the power provided by the heart.
This page provides some estimates to the power provided by the human heart. Most of the estimates are in the 1W - 2W range, and the only outlier (5W) seems to have enough editions reporting erroneous data as to doubt its accuracy. I would stick to the 2W upper limit.
Now, if you begin obstructing arteries with water wheels, that power will stop being used to move blood, so blood will not circulate well enough. In this case maybe the heart will start to pump more often, injecting more energy/power into the blood, until it finally cannot stand it and fails.
answered 1 hour ago
SJuan76
11.3k12245
Since all the power that you can get is provided by the heart, the absolute maximum power that you can extract is the power provided by the heart.
This page provides some estimates to the power provided by the human heart. Most of the estimates are in the 1W - 2W range, and the only outlier (5W) seems to have enough editions reporting erroneous data as to doubt its accuracy. I would stick to the 2W upper limit.
Now, if you begin obstructing arteries with water wheels, that power will stop being used to move blood, so blood will not circulate well enough. In this case maybe the heart will start to pump more often, injecting more energy/power into the blood, until it finally cannot stand it and fails.
answered 1 hour ago
SJuan76
11.3k12245
answered 1 hour ago
SJuan76
11.3k12245
answered 1 hour ago
SJuan76
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answered 1 hour ago
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@kingledion remember when you said my Anatomically Correct Sharknado Shark was the good-dumbest question in the Stack?
– Renan
1 hour ago
3
Waterwheels work because the water gets energy from gravity. The only energy in your blood will come from your pumping heart, so unless your circulatory system is a perpetual motion device it's probably a net loss.
– Giter
1 hour ago