From:	SThanatos <sthanatos@*********.COM>
Subject:	Cyberware Power Sources (Was Re: Cyberware: Where do you put the
Date:	Wed, 6 May 1998 19:33:38 -0400

Joshua Bell hath writ:

>In my musings for today I was contemplating cyberware. I wondered how all
>of these neat little devices got the power they need to run. Does wired
>reflexes have a battery pack? If so why isn't it listed so I as a GM can
>rule that it shorted out at a most inoportune time <display evil_grin>.?.

Actually, if current technology has been refined to a high degree in SR,
then there could be two probable possibilities derived from the electricity
produced by the human body.Standardly, neurons produce a charge of 700
milliwatts in a non-active state. If all the standing eletrical energy
produced by the neurons of the body could be concentrated, it could run a
small lightbulb. Perhaps in the future they have figured out how to amplify
this.
Another possibility would be the eletrical gradient across the cell
membranes of all living cells. They are currently developing microscopic
mechanisms which utilize this electric potential at the AMBRI institute in
Austrailia. If this mechanism could be maginifed, it could also be a source
of plausable and natural eletrical current.

My Two Cents
Ryan Yokley
--Kill the Bugs
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