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So most people have seen the movie The Matrix. If you haven't, your life is bullshit and you owe Keanu Reeves a fucking apology.
The plot takes place in a dystopian future where robots have enslaved humans and use them as biological batteries. With their body heat and electrical activity powering the world around them, the humans experience a fabricated reality inside "the Matrix" where they "live" out their lives unaware.
While this sparked many people to ask the question "Is my life real?" and have an existential crisis, I prefer to ask the question "Could this really happen?" like the asshole I am. Could human bodies REALLY be a significant source of power? Or were these robots just too fucking retarded to use a better alternative? Let's find out as we take a look at the energy output of the human body and figure out if The Matrix had it right.
Are you ready to Get Learnt?
So how does the body MAKE energy?
Well, dipshit, if you knew anything about food you would know calories, proteins, and fats are what we need to consume to produce energy to fuel our metabolism. The sole source for this energy in our bodies is adenosine triphosphate, or ATP. But VERY little of this is actually stored as fuel, so there are 3 ways for the body to produce ATP, each having their own uses:
* ATP-PC
-Provides fast ATP but is stored in tiny quantities. Energy produced here comes from broken chemical bonds between creatine and phosphate and provides energy for high intensity activities for around 10 seconds.
* Anaerobic Glycolysis
-Provides energy slower than ATP-PC but is stored more. This form comes from enzymes converting glucose (sugars) to lactic acid and is used to power heavy activities exceeding 2 minutes or more
* Anaerobic (Oxidative) Phosphorylation
-This is the most commonly known form. It provides the slowest ATP but is stored in the largest quantities. Here, fats and carbs are given to the mitochondria to be broken down because they're THE FUCKING POWERHOUSE OF THE CELL and the energy created is used for long, intense exercise like running a marathon. THIS is the energy we'll be referring to.
So if this is HOW we make energy, exactly HOW MUCH are we making?
Just give me 2 seconds, FUCK.
So the amount of energy we create is entirely dependent on our calorie consumption. No shit, right?
Every kilocalorie (1000 calories) from food is equal to about 4200 joules of energy. This means for someone who consumes 2000 calories a day, AT REST, they average in around 100 watts of energy.
That's as much as a light bulb.
You're a fucking light bulb.
Another way of looking at this would be to compare how many AA batteries it would take to power YOU. A Manganese/Alkaline AA battery is rated at 2.5 amp-hours or roughly 3.9 watt-hours. With this, using the satanic magic of mathematics, we find that it would take around 12.3 AA batteries to power your body each day.
That's a lot, huh?
BITCH YOU KNOW THAT AIN'T SHIT
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The average car would require about 10,000 AA batteries to run each day, and if you ran the car for 24 hours STRAIGHT, the number would only increase. This means it would take about 813 people to keep it running. And of course, because this is based off of ALL their energy being used, it's safe to assume they would most likely die after.
813 people each day. Dead. Just to power your shitty '01 Toyota Corolla.
Worth it.
But these conjectures are VERY hypothetical and it's hard to say exactly how many people it would take without ACTUALLY hooking up a bunch of idiots to a car engine. But 813 is probably about right. This means, in order to power your car for 1 year, you would need the sacrifice of around 297,000 people, or roughly the entire population of Pittsburgh.
Now all of this is based on each person having a diet of 2,000 calories a day. The more calories each person ate, the more energy they'd produce. This means you could either power your vehicle with 813 dieting people each day, OR go green and simply use 162 Micheal Phelps, who consumes 10,000 calories a day.
But that's just YOUR car. There are around 253 MILLION cars and trucks in the USA alone, meaning over 205 BILLION people would be used EVERY DAY, or around 41 billion Phelps.
The world's population could power America's automotive needs for around 55 minutes.
But in the Matrix, they're feeding the humans so they keep making energy. So this information is redundant, right?
NOT SO FAST NERD
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In The Matrix, its stated that drained humans are blended up and used as fuel for the others. But this idea is pretty flawed as well.
You see, when energy is recycled, some of it is lost. This is Diminishing Return. Imagine if you scaled a photo down in MS paint and then enlarged it again. It would lose definition. Doing this over and over would lower the resolution of the image more and more until you're left with a picture that looks NOTHING like what you started with. If you blended up a drained human corpse like some sort of cadaver smoothie, you would recycle very little energy by consuming it. So unless you mixed your human sorbet with whey protein, liquid cannibalism would be a horrible way to recycle energy.
But it's also stated in the movie that human bodies are used alongside other methods of generating energy. Assuming the robots are capable of creating nuclear reactors, I mean they won a war AGAINST nuclear technology, it's kind of hard to imagine them needing our 100 watt asses as well. For fucks sake, nuclear power plants are capable of generating HUNDREDS OF BILLIONS of kilowatt-hours in a year. This makes just 1 nuclear power plant equivalent to MANY BILLIONS of people in terms of energy production.
So why even bother using fucking humans?
Combining the energy production power of human bodies and a nuclear reactor would be about as useful as combining your car's engine with the power of a god damn potato.
You wanna look like an asshole? Tell people your car has 700 horsepower and 1 potatosmack
While we don't know the exact amount of energy the robot's human battery cells required to operate, it's safe to assume they wouldn't work. Even if EVERY PERSON on the planet was plugged into it, odds are, they would be unable to supply the energy required to run the damn thing. And when a few nuclear power plants can supply more energy than every person on Earth COMBINED, it's hard to see why they'd choose to use us at all. I mean if anything, they'd be better off just burning pure glucose into energy.
Shit, even cows would be a better alternative.
Bigger bodies and NO FORMING A RESISTANCE TO TAKE YOU DOWN.
This is the difference between man and machine.
Man knows that man will find a way.
So unless you're trying to power a common household appliance, I wouldn't recommend using humans.
Sorry, robots. You're retarded.
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Here's something interesting, though: The Matrix originally had humans used as processors within a linked neural network, NOT as a straight up power source. It was changed to them simply being "batteries" because it was thought the average person wouldn't understand the concept of processing.
IDIOTS
THIS WOULD ACTUALLY MAKE SENSE
The human brain is more powerful than any computer fucking EVER. While it's hard to calculate, it's thought that the brain operates at 1 exaFLOP. That's equivalent to a BILLION BILLION calculations per second. For comparison, the fastest supercomputer in the world only runs 33,860 trillion calculations per second. I say ONLY, but that's still 500 times SLOWER than your brain. So linking humans up to a neural network in order to combine their brainpower would ACTUALLY BE LOGICAL AND BENEFICIAL. So while we suck at generating energy, compared to machines, we totally think more gooder, yo.
But hey, who's to say the robots don't know something we don't?
I'm sure after AI takes over the world and enslaves us, they'll figure out a way to turn us all into living Duracells. I mean it's only a matter of time, right?
Hope you all find this interesting as fuck. I know I do.
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