From:	Wafflemeisters <evamarie@**********.NET>
Subject:	Re: Cyberware Power Sources
Date:	Sat, 9 May 1998 16:43:19 -0500

> Re: Cyberware Power Sources (Was Re: Cyberware: Where do you put the bateries?)
("Arno R. Lehmann" ,5:21)

> >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.
>
> 700 mW *PER CELL* ????
>
> How many neurons do you have?
>
> I'm just guessing, but let this be 10,000,000, then you have 7,000,000
> Watts, which is slightly more than you need to power a small
> lightbulb...

I think thats 700milliVOLTS, IE, .7volt, across a cell membrane or
synaptic junction. Current is definately nowhere NEAR one amp (I don't
recal its value), so your right, the power would not be anything like
700mw. Current is minimal. IIRC, an electric eel puts out 50-200
thousand volts, and still only a portion of a watt- mutch in the same
fashion as a stun gun, the energy is pulsed, the voltage high, and the
current quite low. So figure maybe 1/100000 of an amp? I seem to
remeber the human nervous sustem coming to somehere between 3 and 5
watts, as usually compared to PC's using about 10 times that.

Note that nerves use a lot of potasium and such when firing, so using a
"nueral powerpack" would defintely require you bump up your elctrolyte
intake, as probably would any reflex boosting 'wares (or magic), by at
least a multiple equal to your total dice. Gatoraid, anyone? Straight
from the packet, no water? Not a fun thing in the desert, where
electolyte loss is ALREADY trouble.

-Mongoose