Implant Heat
Hello folks. I've been mucking about with several ideas, but I keep coming back to the same issue: heat. For the life of me I can't seem to find any data on the maximum threshold for the temperature increase from an implant before there is a risk of scalding. Part of the problem is that it's on a sliding scale of time versus temp; knowing that a certain temperature is safe for up to 10 minutes doesn't help much with the logistics of a permanent implant.
So I guess the answer is simple: does anyone know of any research or documentation on this?
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@OniExpress, maybe you will be the pioneer who finds out if we're a heat sink or an incubator.
How efficient would it be to heat the body with implants which get power from inductive coils? Would too much energy be lost to transmission or could deep space pioneers be heated through sub-dermal coils? Or people who dive in cold waters?
It would be so simple to put a enameled solenoid in silicone and place them along an arm or leg.
Inductive chargers fall off with the square of the distance, so if you go past a few centimeters you've already lost a lot of power.
Also as a note, inductive chargers would not work well at all in water. Water is a great absorber for radio signals, that's why we use SONAR on subs instead of RADAR.
Biggest heat source are the losses of the battery (given you use a charger with high efficiency, but those are easy to get). Battery charge/discharge efficiency for Liion is bout 80-90%. The remaining 10 to 20% are lost in heat.