Power of Pee Runs a Battery

[meow2u3]

Scientists have developed a way to turn pee into electricity. And there's plenty where that came from, they point out.

Cheap, disposable, and renewable, urine-powered batteries may be the perfect power source for disposable healthcare test kits called biochips, the researchers say.

"We are striving to develop cheap, disposable credit card-sized biochips for disease detection," said battery developer Ki Bang Lee. "Our battery can be easily integrated into such devices, supplying electricity upon contact with biofluids such as urine."

The research is detailed in the Aug. 15 issue of the Institute of Physics' Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering.

http://www.livescience.com/humanbiology/050816_urine_battery.html

[short bus president]

1. obligatory 'doc, it burns when I pee' joke

complete with mad-scientist "it's working!" laughter: MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

[Hugin]

5. Ba-da-boom *pissh!*

Hey, it's in the contract.

[TK421]

2. Wouldn't it be great if pee could fuel an engine? Could you imagine?

Uh....Fill 'er up!

[maxsolomon]

3. energy crisis solved

next!

[Hugin]

4. Eeew... Urine powered Cell Phones!

Cross country car trips would be measured in sodas/mile.

etc.

[miss_kitty]

8. No more 'trucker's lemonade' on the side of the road

they'd save it and sell it at collection points at truck stops.

[BattyDem]

6. Wouldn't it be great if they could make cars run on pee-powered batteries?

It would certainly change family "rules" when taking road trips. Instead of saying, "Okay kids, go to the bathroom now because I don't want to make any stops along the way."

It'll be, "Junior! What did I tell you? NO PEEING! We have a long drive and we're going to have to fill up again this afternoon. Now ... get in the car and drink this gallon of water!"

:evilgrin:

[nookiemonster]

7. "C'mon pops. Let's roll." VROOM VROOM

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