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Why is it shit? Sounds like having your body power the electronics of your gear which isn’t insane. It’s technically difficult to get a lot of energy out but out of hand it’s not crazy. And phase ii sounds like they’ve met the previous milestone and are proposing the next iteration.

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I'm curious about the usability of the clothing. Who wants to wear clothes that actively cool you when you're in a cold environment, or heat you when you're in a hot environment?

Me too, but pretending like you could get that from a phase ii proposal is premature and the wrong venue to draw such a conclusion.

It’s like the conservatives claiming $3M was spent on a shrimp treadmill to see how fast they run and is a sign of waste when the actual details were 1.5M of which only $15k was used for the treadmill to study things like the impact on shrimp of disease and changes in water quality. Low information people think they get an accurate summary of the reality.

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