Urine-Powered Battery

[aplefka]

Sweet. Seems like everything is going to be coming from urine in the future. First the article in Wired about NASA using urine-filtration to save money on water, now this. Anyone think this is cool besides me?

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Saeed al-Sahaf writes "Research investment into developing smaller and cheaper chips to process information in disposable health tests has been significant, but they were still reliant on an external power source. The researchers at Singapore's Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology think they have overcome this problem with their latest urine powered battery. From the article "The battery is composed of paper, soaked in copper chloride, sandwiched between layers of magnesium and copper. The whole thing, once laminated in plastic, is just a millimeter thick, and 6cm by 3cm in size." The breakthrough promises a cheap and disposable power source for home health tests."

 

[Eli]

Err.. I don't really get it.

So do they put this thing inside your bladder or something?

Otherwise it would still be "external".....

 

[eplebnista]

:shocked:

 

[iwantanewcomputer]

Originally posted by: Eli
Err.. I don't really get it.

So do they put this thing inside your bladder or something?

Otherwise it would still be "external".....

it sounds like it is internal, or why not a regular battery. wtf???

 

[UNCjigga]

Another article on this topic

Cell phone out of power? Piss on it! Isn't technology grand?

 

[EULA]

Think i seen this on google news... was like "WTF"


Next headline: "Septic tanks to power homes of the future!"

 

[dug777]

i want one 🙂

 

[So]

put them in the ganges river and light up all of southeast asia. 😛

 

[Ipno]

Urine just acts as an electrolyte, doesn't actually charge the battery.

What a pisser.