Human Cell Electrical Fields Are As Powerful As Lightning Bolts

[Oneironaut Zero]

Haha. And to think, I came across this article after watching about 20minutes worth of Infamous footage.

[slash112]

wow, do you think that there might be a chance of taking the electrical field and somehow using it, as in a source of energy? and would that have any effect on the body? because how good would that be if they could figure a way of somehow taking the electrical energy and putting it to use, without it badly effecting the body.

[Xei]

Looks like rubbish, the only Google result for internal electric fields inside cells is that article. And no you couldn't use it as a source of energy, nor could you use any aspect of the human metabolism as a source of energy, because humans simply aren't a source of energy; they are an energy sink. You put food energy in and unusable energy comes out.

[slash112]

Looks like rubbish, the only Google result for internal electric fields inside cells is that article. And no you couldn't use it as a source of energy, nor could you use any aspect of the human metabolism as a source of energy, because humans simply aren't a source of energy; they are an energy sink. You put food energy in and unusable energy comes out. dam, oh well. but a human body could be used as an energy source, heat source, for example, if you were to put thermocouples around your body it would generate a bit of electricity.

[Xei]

No, because you'd have to put energy in to the human in the first place. You're not 'generating' anything. You might as well just burn the food.

[wendylove]

Article sounds rubbish. Anyway, back to the discussion of using bodies as energy sources. The matrix is rubbish. I don't see how they can use humans for heat as they need to get a food source and I don't see how using dead people to fuel humans will actually be able to work in the long run. Solar power or geothermal vents would be a better option. I wonder why the computer didn't just launch themselves into space.

[Oneironaut Zero]

Looks like rubbish, the only Google result for internal electric fields inside cells is that article. My first search after reading the article was ["Raoul Kopelman" 15 million volts] and I got this as one of the first hits, along with another hit from phys.org (saying that the findings were also published in the Biophysical Journal), which I'm hoping you're not attempting to discredit without reason.

[Xei]

15 million volts isn't a measure of electric field strength? Anyway, I just calculated the typical electric field strength across a typical plasma membrane, and found it to be of the order 10,000,000 NC-1, so I suppose these findings aren't that incredulous at all; they just suggest some kind of electrical activity within a cell of the same sort of size as that across membranes. Unfortuantely the original article chose to use misleading metaphors instead of keeping a sense of proportion to the thing.

[Bonsay]

15 million volts isn't a measure of electric field strength? Anyway, I just calculated the typical electric field strength across a typical plasma membrane, and found it to be of the order 10,000,000 NC-1, so I suppose these findings aren't that incredulous at all. How did you calculate this? And what is your profession, if I may inquire?

[capoopy]

Whoa for some reason i thought that said something about cells phones lol