"Bill Gates Funds A Smartphone Battery That Runs On Human Urine"

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Bill Gates Funds A Smartphone Battery That Runs On Human Urine


by Julie Bort at Business Insider

http://www.businessinsider.com/bill-gates-funds-pee-smartphone-battery-2013-12

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The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is on a mission to improve human sanitation, particularly in areas of the world that don't have a reliable water supply. Much of that effort is about reinventing the toilet but the foundation has also challenged scientists to find ways to turn human waste into something useful.

Enter Bristol Robotics Laboratory in Bristol, England. Scientists there have developed technology that converts human urine into electricity that can be used to powered a smartphone, as spotted by the Register's Jasper Hamill.

The scientists have demonstrated their wee-powered battery charging a smartphone. They've been awarded a grant from Bill Gates' foundation to develop the tech further.

Here's how it works:

That little round thing is called a Microbial Fuel Cell. Inside of it is are micro-organisms that take the urine, break it down and output electricity.


Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/bill-gates-funds-pee-smartphone-battery-2013-12#ixzz2oMg2xeNz





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[Warren DeMontague]

1. Insert Windows Shit Joke Here

[MADem]

3. E.g. "If bullshit were electricity, they'd be a powerhouse!" nt

[Warren DeMontague]

4. It gives a new meaning to "bloatware"

I tell you what

[MADem]

5. ....

[jberryhill]

6. Look

Either make a witty comment or not, but don't pre-emptively ruin the gag.

That's what I call a "joke kit". There's something funny in there, but you have to put it together yourself.

Couldn't you just have said "After all the shit he's funded for years, it's about time" or "this could turn out to be his Number 1 product" or "I got mine, now you get urine."

Instead, you just decided to piss me off.

[Warren DeMontague]

7. I think you may be overreacting a wee bit

Gee, Whizz.

[Curmudgeoness]

2. So when someone says "piss on Smartphones",

they don't mean they don't like them?

Wee-powered! LOL

[valerief]

8. You have to be piss poor to qualify for it. nt