{"id":198889,"date":"2024-11-07T13:24:43","date_gmt":"2024-11-07T19:24:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/new-discovery-paves-the-way-to-generating-energy-from-body-heat"},"modified":"2024-11-07T13:24:43","modified_gmt":"2024-11-07T19:24:43","slug":"new-discovery-paves-the-way-to-generating-energy-from-body-heat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/new-discovery-paves-the-way-to-generating-energy-from-body-heat","title":{"rendered":"New Discovery Paves The Way to Generating Energy From Body Heat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/J30vD5DGa6I?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019ve ever seen yourself through a thermal imaging camera, you\u2019ll know that your body produces lots of heat. This is in fact a waste product of our metabolism. Every square foot of the human body <a href=\"https:\/\/ergo.human.cornell.edu\/studentdownloads\/DEA3500notes\/Thermal\/thcondnotes.html#:%7E:text=Every%20square%20foot%20of%20body, of%20about%2019%20matches%2Fhour.&text=Du%20Bois%20area%3A%20The%20surface,%3D%20356%20Btu's%20per%20hour\">gives off heat<\/a> equivalent to about 19 matches per hour.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, much of this heat simply escapes into the atmosphere. Wouldn\u2019t it be great if we could harness it to produce energy? My research has shown this would indeed be possible. My colleagues and I are <a href=\"https:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1002\/adfm.202306427\">discovering ways<\/a> of capturing and storing body heat for energy generation, using eco-friendly materials.<\/p>\n<p>The goal is to create a device that can both generate and store energy, acting like a built-in power bank for wearable tech. This could allow devices such as smart watches, fitness trackers, or GPS trackers to run much longer, or even indefinitely, by harnessing our body heat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you\u2019ve ever seen yourself through a thermal imaging camera, you\u2019ll know that your body produces lots of heat. This is in fact a waste product of our metabolism. Every square foot of the human body gives off heat equivalent to about 19 matches per hour. Unfortunately, much of this heat simply escapes into the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1977],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-wearables"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198889\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}