Timeline for Muscle powered cars?
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| Dec 5, 2020 at 6:16 | vote | accept | bertkdowns | ||
| Dec 5, 2020 at 4:53 | comment | added | JBH | Humanity does this every time it rides a bicycle. The mathematics explaining the capabilities of humans using bicycles, the efficiency of human muscles, and the conversion of food into energy are well known. There is no difference between what you're asking and a human on a bicycle other than scale and the lack of the controlling brain to need to reason. May you not be there when said brain decides it deserves to be paid. | |
| Dec 4, 2020 at 22:55 | answer | added | PcMan | timeline score: 4 | |
| Dec 4, 2020 at 21:58 | comment | added | Justin Thyme the Second | Animal muscles need a continuous supply of oxygen and nutrients, supplied by the bloodstream. It is not a simple task of exciting the muscle with an electrical pulse, you also need to provide every cell with a continuous supply of these nutrients and oxygen. That would be equivalent to having a tank of gas which is piped to the car engine. What you want is something like this onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/advs.201901144 | |
| Dec 4, 2020 at 21:46 | comment | added | DKNguyen | I think this is called a horse ;) | |
| Dec 4, 2020 at 21:44 | comment | added | Slarty | Yaba Daba do :o) | |
| Dec 4, 2020 at 21:43 | comment | added | AlexP | Of course you can have engines powered by burning fat. Or vegetable oil, which has the advantage that you don't even need a new engine -- vegetable oil works fine in old-fashioned Diesel engines. (And the main application of vat-grown muscles is obviously food. Niam niam artificial stake.) The main problem with biofuels is not that they don't work; they work perfectly well: it is that you need to grow the fuels in the first place, and that takes up precious arable land. On the other hand, see ethanol in Brazil. | |
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