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Pee-powered battery unveiled

reghardware.co.uk — The trouble with batteries is that there never seems to be a power socket in sight when you want to charge them up.

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  • kiwikultist, on 10/10/2007, -2/+25Hey, it's being developed in Japan. Who would have guessed?
    • napsack, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1"The first model will be introduced in video cameras most commonly used in H-videos"
    • moofer, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5"Goddammit, I'd piss on a spark plug if I thought it'd do any good!" - War Games (1983)

      So far ahead of its time...
    • tyywebb, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1I was expecting the description to go, "The trouble with batteries is that there isn't a good reason to pee on them.....until now!"
  • BassMastr, on 10/10/2007, -2/+22Now all they have to do is develop a way to put it in the car so I can tell the girlfriend,

    "Hey Honey, The car needs gas. I'm going to the bar."
    • philipkaplan, on 10/10/2007, -2/+0^ for drinking and driving
      • knetworx, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2That's where the "NoPoPo" part comes in.
    • jhshukla, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1i would rather use alcohol for fuel.
  • jcannonb, on 10/10/2007, -9/+2I guess alcoholics will now have a reason to go get lushed up. They will be able to contribute back to society proactively even with their extremely bad behavior.
  • SeaMowse, on 10/10/2007, -3/+13This gives new meaning to the phrase "Gentlemen... start your engines!"
    • jesuswuzanalien, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Oh gee willickers that's just soooooooooooooooo FUNNY!!! /sarcasm
  • Tunguska, on 10/10/2007, -1/+32Urine for a shock!
  • ruthless34, on 10/10/2007, -10/+0Next they need one powered by cum and I'm all set.
    • duke, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Yep, and all those lonely women out there relying on battery powered devices. Strange world.
      • ruthless34, on 10/10/2007, -1/+0Lonely women are technologically retarded, they can't use these stuff much.
  • hamstu, on 10/10/2007, -0/+24They're calling it "NoPoPo"
    I guess they thought that that sounded better than "YesPePe"
  • Spuy767, on 10/10/2007, -6/+1Wasn't this just up here yesterday?
    • blahtastic, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Nah, that was a super insta-charge car battery. This is awkward sub par pee power.

      It's nice they're looking into power alternatives though. Lets just not settle on bodily fluids.
  • catfish182, on 10/10/2007, -5/+6this story is enough to piss a person off.
  • wifirewire2, on 10/10/2007, -2/+7i bet it has piss poor performance...
  • FlyCO, on 10/10/2007, -1/+10This thing brings Battery Leaking to a whole new level
    • astrotrain, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1This just in... Dell recalls batteries that are now exploding....Urine all over the folks around them.
  • wediggit, on 10/10/2007, -4/+1I think somebody is taking the pi$$!
  • AntBing, on 10/10/2007, -2/+2Old news, interesting though.

    http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/08/0818_050818_urinebattery.html
  • buttmonkey22, on 10/10/2007, -2/+3To bad this will never come to the USA, because for some odd reason we dont like the idea of reusable anything.
    • AntBing, on 10/10/2007, -2/+1It's hard to Digg anything posted by such a Buttmonkey. Oh, and I'm American and reuse anything I can as well as recycle all I can.
    • kurtu5, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1I suspect your heart bleeds. Remember this, we will be extinct in a few million years and Earth will continue humming along.

      Anyway, the real reason this will never be here in the US is its ***** stupid.

      Its basically a battery that is broken until you fix it by putting in your own electrolyte. So when you run out of batteries you go get this broken battery, that you have stocked, fix it and you have a battery. Why not just keep good batteries around?
  • inblue, on 10/10/2007, -0/+8i remember when we were kids we'd stick our tongues on 9volts to get that little shock.... guess we won't be doing that anymore... get a shock with a strong taste of urine. great.
    • Nighthawke, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Just try your taste test on a 12volt car fob battery. You think the 9 volt batts gave you a nice tingle...
  • demonstro, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1尿力
  • 0crabby0, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6Urine powered? So I guess bars are the new windmills for generating power?
  • AnotherBrian, on 10/10/2007, -1/+6It sounds like they are not pee powered. The liquid acts as an electrolyte to connect the plates that actually hold the chemical energy. Like like those 'water powered' clocks I've seen at thinkgeek.com They should really know better than to describe it as water powered, more like water assisted.

    http://www.thinkgeek.com/homeoffice/lights/757e/
  • Macshiba, on 10/10/2007, -4/+0Sweet. I'm going to fill up a battery with a liquid, and then stick it into something that sends electricity to it, and then I'm going to be at the morgue because it's going to ***** kill me when I burst into flames.
  • bexamous, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5Stupid. It gets no power from the urine, it's just a dry battery... add water when you need to use it, dry batteries have been around for decades.
  • tomh218, on 10/10/2007, -3/+0This is a good excuse to have that one last drink that you know you shouldn't have.
  • Kodiak41226, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1I can remember, like 10 years ago, I infomercial that marketed a Urine Powered Battery. They were targeting outdoors men with it, and I can remember it being huge. They keep repeating that the urine reacted with something called nithium to produce power? Any one remember this.
  • Nighthawke, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Just dont piss anyone off ok?
  • DigitAl56K, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1"The trouble with batteries is that there never seems to be a power socket in sight when you want to charge them up."

    Can't say I ever have that problem. Certainly not to the extend I'd rather pee into a battery than carry a spare...
  • loquax, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3Too bad they can't get it to run off of bovine excreta. Washington D.C. could power the world for 1000 years.
    • Leviathan777, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3It would have been funnier if you actually just wrote "*****".
  • bigpeeler, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2"It keeps going, and going, and going..."
  • astrotrain, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1So their will be signs at major tourists attractions stating "No Recharging Your Pee Powered Batteries"?

    Mickey Mouse:"Ha-Ha...Hi ya kids..whats your dad doing over there?"
    Kids: "Re-charing his batteries"
  • liltarget, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0Do you think if you drink lots of coffee then pee on the battery it will be a better battery than drinking something like orange juice? hmmmm.... exparament time!
  • redneckblues, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1I'm chargin' mah lazah!
  • crossers, on 07/11/2008, -0/+0hah, to charge them up? why you need to do this?
    http://www.ocflex.com/
    http://www.trgovinca.org
    http://www.chasr.org/
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