{"id":205145,"date":"2025-02-01T11:07:13","date_gmt":"2025-02-01T17:07:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/the-human-battery-matrixs-sci-fi-concept-turned-into-reality"},"modified":"2025-02-01T11:07:13","modified_gmt":"2025-02-01T17:07:13","slug":"the-human-battery-matrixs-sci-fi-concept-turned-into-reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/the-human-battery-matrixs-sci-fi-concept-turned-into-reality","title":{"rendered":"The human battery: Matrix\u2019s sci-fi concept turned into reality"},"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\/IEK3kRD90Jc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Thermoelectric generators played a major role in this experiment.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>An experimentator has used waste heat of his body to turn humans into batteries. Nick Zetta, who runs Basically Homeless YouTube channel, turned himself into a battery using thermoelectric generators.<\/p>\n<p>Zetta followed a simple approach that aimed at capturing the waste heat from the human body and turning that into electricity.<\/p>\n<p>Thermoelectric generator, which uses temperature differential to force electron flow, played a major role in this experiment. The device generates electricity when one side is hotter than the other side.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thermoelectric generators played a major role in this experiment. An experimentator has used waste heat of his body to turn humans into batteries. Nick Zetta, who runs Basically Homeless YouTube channel, turned himself into a battery using thermoelectric generators. Zetta followed a simple approach that aimed at capturing the waste heat from the human body [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-205145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205145","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205145\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}