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Maby their is a mask that we could put on which would have a tube that would come down to a box and inside that box would be a fan or something that would spin when you breathed and would generate not much but at least some electicity and it would go into an empty battery, at the end of the day you would place that battery into a power suply and it would be sent back into the grid for other uses.
The Chosen One, Jan 20 2010
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To wear a mask and auxiliary equipment to generate a few bits if electric power strikes me as rather insane.
The device would make it harder to breathe and would generate a trivial amount of electricity.
I think the extra resistance breathing would freak you out, You'll feel like you're going to die of suffocation.
All of the energy you recovered would just be energy expended by you, so for practical purposes, it would probably make more sense to generate the energy mechanically with a crank or something.
Although a possibly more workable spin-off of a breathing-generator might use a band around your chest to convert the expansion and contraction to rotational movement, then electricity.
It's just that generating from flowing air is really really inefficient.
Just think about how heavy this mechanism would be! Anything lightweight would not generate any useful amount of energy. Any useful amount of energy, the battery and generator alone would be very heavy.