Bio-electricity

[Taem]

You do realize, of course, that you're getting excited over exactly what the 'villain' of The Matrix was doing to the human race. No?

No. I'm not talking about enslaving sentient beings here, I'm talking about growing non-living, bio-engineered "things" that can do either one of two things:

1A) Provide electricity to us using our own bodies process of turning food into energy, then converting this energy into electricity. The problem with that is there is no known way of extracting the energy the body makes from food except through the minimal amounts of heat and electricity our bodies produce. But if you can push a car up a hill, where is this latent energy coming from? From within. Our bodies generate it. Surely there is a way to harness that latent energy?!?

2A) Produce non-living muscles that do nothing more than contract all day long, causing pistons/turbines to move generating electricity. Now if we could figure out how to grow muscles, well first off we could grow them the size of turbines, but this would also be much easier to mass produce and create than #1. We wouldn't need to dam waters any longer, or wait for wind to blow... we could use these bio-engineered things to do the grunt work for us and produce the electricity themselves all day long.

1&2-B) As bio-engineering improves, computers could start using microchips and a processor that uses bio-chemical storage for near-infinite storage, but I'm not sure if using that would speed up or slow down modern electrical components.

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2B) We could start growing meat and let animals roam free again. I am a meat eater, but I'll be first to admit that we are depleting the worlds stock of fish and game from our massive hunger for meat. Growing our meat instead could change the world for the better, for the animals injected with hormones and steroids, for us, and for the environment.