Jessica thinks I should write a Sci-Fi book sometime because I keep coming up with things like this:

You know how you have transporters in Star Trek. Well, theoretically, they might work by actually taking the mass of your body and converting it to pure subatomic energy, storing the pattern of your atomic particles in the pattern buffer, transferring the energy to somewhere else, then reconstructing the mass from the energy using the pattern in the pattern buffer. Now, if the machine is already capable of storing the complete pattern of your atomic makeup, it should be just a little twist to make it capable of recognizing atomic groups as larger patterns, such as cells, and therefore make the machine able to detect your bodies cellular makeup. Then, another little tweak to make it recognize defective cells and reconstruct them as healthy cells. You might even be able to do things like detects grossly damaged cell areas and reconstruct them whole again. Viola, modern medicine re-invented. You get stabbed by someone, no problem, go to the transporter machine and have it reconstruct you in the same spot but without the stab wound. Have clogged arteries. No big deal, just an annual physical exam could include your routine reconstruction that would clear out arterial blockage, rejuvinate skin cells, check for any cancerous cells, fix things like protien deposits on the lens of your eyes so you never need to get bifocals as you get older, etc. Now, here’s the great part about this. If you are going to be doing this reconstruction, many times it can mean removal of mass (getting rid of a cancer tumour that’s growing, or possibly just a simple reconstruction to remove extra fat, aka needleless liposuction). That extra mass can be kept in it’s energy form and fed into our national electrical power grid ;-) So, since extra fat on our bodies comes from eating, which ultimately all food is part of the natural food chain and based solely on solar or other renewable energy resources, the energy we get when we reconstruct ourselves minus the fat would be a renewable energy resource! And since mass converted to energy follows the equation E=mc^2, we get *huge* amounts of energy from small amounts of fat. I’m psyched! Who wants to start working on this with me?!?!