Pee Powered Battery Now Available
by Lloyd Alter, Toronto on 09. 6.07
When we last looked at pee powered batteries, they were still experimental; now they are on the shelves in AA and AAA sizes in Japan. It can be recharged with a variety of liquids including urine and other precious bodily fluids, is supposed to last 10 years, and pumps out 500 milliamp-hours (mAh), which is equivalent to zinc-carbon batteries but a third of what an alkaline does.
Commenter Nick had a good idea in the last post: Imagine a Tesla filled with these. "Pile the family in, hook everyone up, and go. Oh, and cancel the old mantra of every parent, "Go before you go." Now, you'll load the kids up with as much kool aid as possible so that you'll be able to go." ::Splurch
Oh my goodness, I must get some of these! To think that I've been flushing all of that precious stuff down the drain! Maybe someone should open up a Portable Urine Power Plant! They could have a fraternity kegger and power the whole neighborhood.
-- Daniel Lunsford
New from Apple(tm) the iPeed!
-Lego
for some reason i think NoPooPoo is a piece of Sh!t. pull another leg
Some time back you covered a "tree battery" .
(http://www.treehugger.com/files/2006/03/the_new_power_p_1.php)
Some people explained very carefully that the power came not from the tree, but from the reactions involving the metal parts inserted into the tree. This is PP-battery exactly the same, only the tree has been replaced by urine.
There is nothing particularly enviornmental friendly about this battery. The magnesium and the copper inside are used up and need to be produced again.
Making such a mistake one is understable, making it twice is rater stupid.
Beats hooking myself up to a micro-hydro generator.
it would be amazing to use this. however, won't the batteries and the gadgets using these batteries smell awful after recharging them from pee?
Instead of Zoom Zoom, the Pee Car would have to advertise Whiz, Whiz!