FAQ
Who?#
Michael Lever
What?#
Electrified Jello piloting a biological mech-suit powered by renewable fuels. Like honestly, a human consumes about 100 Watts. A laptop battery holds about 60 Watt-hours of energy, so we’d need 40 laptop batteries strapped to our backs to power ourselves. ATP, man. Now that I think about it, an traditional lightbulb is like 10 times hotter than we are. Does that mean the surface area of the filament is 10,000 times smaller than the surface area of a human? I looked it up… a 60 W lightbulb filament is about 0.8 cm2 and a human is about 2 m2. That means this Fermi approximation was within a factor of 3. We got our answer from the what amounts to “humans are kinda like lightbulbs” and “lightbulbs are 10 times hotter than me.” Wild.
Where?#
New York City
When?#
Now
Why?#
How?#
Biology is pretty cool, it lets me have thoughts. So are the Internet and semiconductors; they let me use telepathy with you.
How was this site made?#
I use a heavily modified Jekyll template hosted and built on CloudCannon so I don’t have to worry about Ruby and gems and all that.