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by mullen 1390 days ago
Why not just draw heat from the person and convert it to electricity?
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You need a heat difference, not just heat, to generate electricity.

Now my sibling comment links to a paper where they say they can find heat differences in the body that are sufficient for their needs, so this is still a possibility! But it does mean you need to be somewhere with a heat gradient: the paper mentions just under the skin.

Looks like there has been research done on that topic[1].

[1]. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3146093/