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Tanka Poudel

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Machine which generates energy using concept of human digestive system.

Creating a biological machine which is similar to our body that produces energy processing organic materials, waste can be utilized as manure and unused energy is stored as fat which can be used later.

Topics: alternative energy
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    Tanka Poudel

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    Jul 31 2012: I feel human body has several advantages over all other technology and its a true technical achievement of nature. We have started treating our body as machine already and have started fixing it mending it and even growing it. Our body is constantly generating energy even if its day or night. Since we have already made so many wild ideas real why not think about studying how our body generates, stores and utilizes energy and utilizing that knowledge to create a completely natural way of generating energy.
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      griffin tucker 10+

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      Jul 31 2012: i can't help but think of this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IojqOMWTgv8
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        Tanka Poudel

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        Jul 31 2012: well i had thought some one will take it in this angle ;). but my concept is not based on generating electricity from human body rather my focus is in replicating one of the simple part of human body "Stomach" to process organic materials to generate sugar which can be used to generate energy and some how store excess sugar as fat which can be utilized later
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          griffin tucker 10+

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          Jul 31 2012: once i thought of a similar idea, where a second robotic stomach would be implanted into a human, and directly connected to the human stomach.

          the robotic stomach would contain a variety of minerals, and depending on what minerals are low according to blood tests that the robotic stomach could carry out, the robotic stomach could release those minerals into the human stomach.

          i imagined that it would be powered via batteries (which are dangerous to put in human bodies) so if the robotic stomach could be powered via things like human heat or even organic materials/minerals/sugar it would be quite a feat.

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