Oxygen based? Like burning firewood or fossil fuels? Yep, very advanced. It's probably a fuel cell, all of which require oxygen as part of the reaction (hydrogen-oxygen, sugar-oxygen, lithium-air, etc).
I get both magazines erratically (2nd hand). Lots of nifty and obscure new technology that I can't afford to license. I didn't see the article, but I don't read it cover to cover.
Good. I want a fuel cell powered cell phone first.
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From
"The large calorie, kilogram calorie, dietary calorie, nutritionist's calorie or food calorie (symbol: Cal)[2] approximates the energy needed to increase the temperature of 1 kilogram of water by 1 °C. This is exactly 1,000 small calories or approximately 4.2 kilojoules."
Also see
for the kilojoules in meat.
I think you are low by 3 orders of magnitude.
Disregard. I rechecked my numbers and I agree with you.
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IIRC, there is a cell phone auxiliary power pack on the market that is an air-fuel fuel cell.
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Yep:
It uses the hydrogen in butane and the oxygen in air, to run a hydrogen-oxygen fuel cell. However, it's larger than my cell phone and awkward to carry yet another device. If I just want a fast charge, I use one of the cheap hand crank USB power geneators.
What I'm waiting for is a fuel cell powered cell phone, where the fuel cell is inside the phone or smartphone.
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Consuming own or enemy casualties ?
In either case, if this would become publicly known, what would be the public reaction all over the world ?
It would probably inspire the general acceptance of cannibalism and an associated fad diet. Owning or building a man eating robot would be criminalized (except for government ownership and research). There would soon be a movement to give robots the vote on the basis of anything that eats humans must eventually become human. Robotic activists will clash with humanists in the streets as a welcome diversion from a truly boring election. Consult your favorite science fiction nightmare for details.
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Considering how much easier it would be to burn, e.g. wood, or grass, or dry camel dung as compared to meat, that one is about as far-fetched as it gets.
Robots to *recover* corpses, that makes a lot of sense. Many armed forces, e.g. the Israeli Defence Force and the US Marines, don't hesitate to risk additional casualties in order to recover the bodies of their dead. Doing that by robot instead has a lot of charm.
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That would depend on how many robots you can turn loose on them. ;-)
Soylent Green?
Steam powered robots will run on just about anything that burns.
Yep. Just turn on the charm. I like the bright colors to make it look like a kids toy:
A bulldozer, excavator scoop, or skip loader would probably be equally useful. However, why stop with just recovering the body? A few more robotic additions and the machine can also run a cursory autopsy, drain the fluids, embalm, shrink wrap the body, insert in a prefab plastic coffin, and attach return to sender shipping instructions. It can be a one stop mortuary on wheels. Might be useful on the freeways and after soccer games.
Drivel: One of my early jobs was working for a mortuary. Mostly, I pushed a broom and dealt with the garbage. I soon learned that Americans have some rather odd ideas about how to handle their dead. While a robot and possibly an automated corpse processor might work on a battlefield, it will never be acceptable to the general public.
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1 kg of lard is 9 kCal. That should be fairly easy to render out and use more directly, (pyrolytic decomposition to small hydrocarbons?).
Now we know the real reason behind the obesity epidemic...
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Interesting. What i have found out about how various cultures written documents about how to handle dead bodies to more that rather odd.
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