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From: jc@cdx39.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: Input device
Message-ID: <633@cdx39.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 2-Feb-87 15:19:52 EST
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Posted: Mon Feb  2 15:19:52 1987
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In article <335@boulder.UUCP>, forys@boulder.UUCP (Jeff Forys) writes:
> In article <205@pupthy.UUCP> wrs@pupthy.UUCP (William R. Somsky) writes:
> > The fuel cell then leaches oxygen and simple sugars out of the blood
> > stream, oxidizes the sugars to generate electrical power for the computer,
> > and deposits the waste products back in the blood stream to be removed by
> > the remaining kidney.
> 
> But why tie up the blood stream?  Instead, just DMA the waste from the
> fuel cell past the kidney...
> 
> :-)

First, you obviously meant DBA (Direct Bladder Access).

Second, it isn't necessary.  If the fuel cell is anywhere near efficient,
the result of combining O2 with sugars, i.e., (HCOH)n will be CO2 and H2O;
the appropriate way of handling this would be to dump it back to the blood,
letting the lungs separate out the CO2.  A direct connection is undesirable,
because the fuel cell would have to separate the two end products, giving
a rather pointless duplication of the lungs' function.

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