From:	Wafflemeisters <evamarie@**********.NET>
Subject:	Re: Cyberware Power Sources
Date:	Thu, 7 May 1998 16:47:41 -0500

> Cyberware Power Sources (Was Re: Cyberware: Where do you put the bateries?)
(SThanatos , Wed 18:33)

> >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>.?.

<tounge in cheek>
I always assumed it drew power from its essence cost, turning essence
sustaining lifeforce into electricty directly.
</tounge in cheek>

> Standardly, neurons produce a charge of 700
> milliwatts in a non-active state.
> If this mechanism could be maginifed, it could also be a source
> of plausable and natural eletrical current.
>

It can be. Electric eels genrate very high voltagees by having many
neurun-like cells "stacked" in series, adding thier volatages like
batteries in series. Similarly, multiple "stacks" in paralel would add
amperage. Given the abiltiy to grow similar cells (easy in SR),
engenering an organized tissue to produce the proper voltages and
currents would be doable, even with TODAYS tech (guided tissue
structuring has produced primitive "liveres" with simplified filter like
structures ofintelaced blood vessels and liver tissue).
Put such an engeneered organ in a cyberlimb, route blood (or blood
filtrates) to it, and WHOLA, organic "Fuel cell battery", plus another
excuse (besides pain) for limb damage to affect the user-the limb
BLEEDS.

-Mongoose