User:RedSwordsman/Archive1

May 29, 2011: Is the Matrix Possible?

And no, I'm not referring to the alternate reality perspective, however plausible it may be. I'm looking at it from a technological perspective. How do you hook billions of people to machinery, suck the energy out of them to fuel robotic cities, and leave them unsuspecting for their entire lives?

Hooking Up to a Hardrive

In the movies the enslavement of mankind essentially came in three steps:

• 1st: that mankind was defeated in a long war with the machines. Having lost their ability to obtain solar energy, the machines resorted to the "abundant, rapidly multiplying mammals" for alternative energy.
• 2nd: this alternative energy was the Electrokinetic energies of the human body. As we multiply fast, we'd act as a never-ending supply of energy for the machines.
• 3rd: for some reason, after capturing us and hooking all of man to machines they programmed us into their database known as the Matrix. I guess it's easier to enslave billions of people when they don't even realize their slaves.

The question remains: can metal pins send the electrokinetic energies of humans to their machines to effectively power it. During rest (and I'm saying rest because the people hooked to the machines aren't really doing much) the average human heart beat per minute is averaged at 80 (or 1 beat per 0.75 seconds). At this rate the heart gives off several "waves" of electrical output throughout the human body. And at 80 heart beats per minute(bpm) that would be averaged 2.5 excess millivolts produced at any given time.

Now, a good car would need a battery with about 40,000 volts of electricity to run for a decade. That right there would take, on average, about 11 volts of electricity each day if driven the same distance going at the same speed. That car battery would be about the equivalent of 55 sleeping people each day to power that car.

And by size comparison, the red structures of which the people are connected to in the movie are much more massive (about 180 times the size) than a good car. So imagine about 7,200,000 Volts of electricity would need 36,000,000 people connected to run each day with no strenuous activity.

In conclusion: it is possible to use human electrokinetic energy (we use it everyday), but it would be very inefficient. And btw I may have done some of the math wrong. I apologize if I had.