[extropy-chat] Computing Power: Moore's Law keeps going and going and going

[Robert Bradbury]

The conversion to electricity in-body probably makes it less efficient.  The
transmission of electricity through the skin is going to involve induction
coils (similar to the battery chargers in electric toothbrushes) and that
will involve losses.  I was thinking along the lines of bioluminescent
bacteria which are in most, if not all, cases driven off of ATP.  Conversion
of glucose into ATP is I believe fairly efficient from a thermodynamic point
of view.  Conversion of glucose directly to electricity is probably going to
require new enzymes and/or some kind of a fuel cell structure.  If you want
to transport the energy efficiently you either need chemical carriers (and
piping) or wires.

R.
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