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Questions tagged [energy]

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Why cannot machines use energy stored in a way similar to biological systems' energy storage?

Owing to the generality of the question I am interested merely in key problems so that I could do further reading. As I understand man-made energy storages are significantly less efficient than biological ones. I would like to focus on quickly…
user27396
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Can a person's body produce enough electricity to break a wristwatch?

I know of someone who cannot seem to wear watches without the battery dying or something else about the watch going haywire. this person was told it is because their body is producing too much electricity and that by putting nail polish on the…
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Energy produced from respiration

Why is the amount of ATP Produced from anaerobic respiration is less than the amount produced from aerobic respiration?
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If bond break absorbs energy, why ATP hydrolysis releases it?

We know that bond formation releases energy and bond break absorbs energy. I still don't figure out why ATP hydrolysis (that breaks a bond between oxygen and phosphorous) releases energy, and it releases a LOT.
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How does the human body power itself?

This query can be divided into sub-queries: What form/s of energy does the human body "run" on? Why/for what are these particular forms of energy required? From what can these types of energy be derived? How efficiently (less waste) does the body…
Chanti Cooper
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