From: Dossy (dossy@panoptic.com)
Date: Mon Dec 10 2001 - 11:56:08 MST
On 2001.12.10, Mike Lorrey <mlorrey@datamann.com> wrote:
> If you give up the current technology at that efficiency to one that
> is only 1-8% efficient, you are automatically contracting your energy
> supply by a whole order of magnitude.
How "efficient" is the human brain? How can it accomplish so
much computation with such little energy?
What if you could build equipment that didn't require externally
supplied power? You would just pour water, salt, and sugar and
some other stuff into it, and that would be enough to power the
device?
> Even if we were able to boost consumption efficiencies all up into the
> 90%+ level, you are still condemning 1/4 to 1/2 the human race to
> death.
Nobody said that progress was cheap.
-- Dossy
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