On 2013-07-04 1:42 AM, c h wrote:
> No way. Mother Nature says, playing with one's body temp is not quite
> healthy. Some magnet and coil, plus a PICowatt microcontroller would be a
> better option in my opinion. (Did they trademark "PICowatt" already?:-)

If the mammalian body were that fragile, it would have never survived
this long. There is an incredibly complex control mechanism involved,
not to mention the extremely high heat capacity of your body. It is,
after all, mostly water and other high heat capacity substances. You
radiate far more power into space than the power required to light your
average flashlight. Stealing a few watts from the human body will not do
it any harm at all. It will respond by dilating blood vessels, changing
blood pressure, changing metabolism, releasing hormones to help you get
moving, regulating appetite, and so on. And by the looks of the mass of
the average American, something like this would probably do them some
good.
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