Will your body be the battery of the future? @ ET

Straight from the mind of the Matrix.

The average human, at rest, produces around 100 watts of power. This equates to around 2000 kcal of food energy, which is why your recommended daily intake of calories is around 2000 kcal. Over periods of a few minutes (or a few hours in the case of trained athletes), we can comfortably sustain 300-400 watts — and in the case of very short bursts of energy, such as sprinting, some humans can output up to 2,000 watts.

As humans move around they tend to "waste" a lot of energy in the form of body heat and kinetic energy.  What if you could harvest that energy to charge one of your many mobile devices? Of course that is assuming you walk around enough to generate the power needed but it could be possible.

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