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Cell Phone Powered By Urine
sciencehabit writes "The newest source of battery power for your cell phone is both cheap and abundant. Scientists report that microbial fuel cells using human urine can directly power a cell phone battery. However, the devices are not quite portable enough to come in handy during a marathon pub crawl. One consists of six, 4-inch-long ceramic cylinders; the other is a network of 25 smaller fuel cells borrowed from the team's waste-fueled EcoBot. And urine-powered conversations would have to be short and sweet. After 24 hours of charging, a Samsung phone stayed alive for 25 minutes—enough to send several texts and make a 6-minute, 20-second call."
Yeah but it gets piss-poor reception, even when using frosty piss.
You'd be too drunk to speak over the phone by then.
And urine-powered conversations would have to be short and sweet. After 24 hours of charging, a Samsung phone stayed alive for 25 minutes
Why do we even post this if it's that shitty charger?
to when your mate calls you to take the piss...
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This could be done like a wind turbine in which you pee into a little propeller and the spluttering urine creates electricity. Sort of a golden shower by proxy.
Perfect for Bear Grylls!
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No. 1, I don't think it's a good idea.
And No. 2, now maybe that could work but it would smell even worse.
This is a lot better than those "better drink my own piss" memes...
If the device is to big to be portable, simply convert every urinal everywhere, to a combo battery recharge and free wifi hot spot!!
JJ
You should know it does't work to power subway trains!
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It's like people are rediscovering that you can make a battery out of any random electrolyte and two dissimilar metals to get grants.
Who *didn't* make a battery out of a potato or lemon as a kid, or at least didn't see it demonstrated in 4'th grade?
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So now, "I'm gonna piss off" means charging.
A new excuse to walk up to someone, and ask them to pee on your phone.
Could you wizz on my phone so I can call my girlfriend?
Who would win this election: Andrew Weiner vs Andrew Weiner's weiner.
This virtually guarantees you'll always be able to drunk dial.
Not NEARLY as much as you do, pally.
If you're so dehyrdated that you have to call 911, urine trouble.
There's no -1 for "I don't get it."
"Yes. I just need to make a quick call, then I'll give it back to you."
Worst. Signature. Ever.
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At last I will be able to expense beer.
Quick overpriced beer in the airport lounge, and my phone is back to a full charge.
How is that not a legitimate work expense?
If I were God, wouldn't I protect my churches from acts of me?
"Go ahead, piss on your Samsung Galaxy. They want you to. And we'll be open at 9 tomorrow morning for you."
if this is supposed to be a new economy, how come they still want my old fashioned money?
eww... i'm ready to eat supper. lol *closes internet explorer*
im just worried that the nsa will be taking my urine samples without consent.
Sorry guy, he sounds more like a Warrior than a Paladin.
the devices are not quite portable
So put one underneath every one of those trough urinals in football stadiums and hockey rinks. Use the power generated to run the stadium lights, recharge electric cars, or hydrolyze water to create fuel for more portable fuel cells.
I can see the fnords!
They're taking the piss.
Piss on it!!
Just piss off already
Sorry, I tried to hold it in but it just burst out
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Table-ized A.I.
I can't wait to tell my boss I have to take a piss to talk to him.
Python: 'And then suddenly you have a language which says "we're all stuck with whatever the whiniest coder wants".'
This is a fuel cell, not a simple primary cell like you make from a lemon and a couple coins. The urine isn't acting as a simple electrolyte here.
The urine acts as the fuel, and a fuel cell will keep producing power as long as it has fuel and oxygen. Unlike a primary electrochemical cell, the electrodes are not consumed as part of the reaction.
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inside the phones.
No, I didn't drop the phone in water, I just pissed on it to charge it up. Honest!
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why not (partially) power facilities with an abundance of urine? (schools, bars, stadiums, etc)
I can't wait to see an episode when he pees on his phone.
What is the chemical reaction at stake here? Urine main compound is urea, which ofrmula is CO(NH2)2. How is energy extracted from it, and what is the byproduct?
I'm afraid to ask what it takes to power a tablet.
JAGga.me ----> Producing video games addressing emotional health and wellness issues affecting teens.
I'm intrigued - what is a Faget
An US physician in New Orleans in the 19th century?
Is this something about you picking up these Fagets on the piss we're all missing?
Well, Faget worked with yellow fever patients, and we all know what else is often yellow....
does piss test checking for the NSA to ensure even more Americans are unable to pass a background check in order to make pizzas.
The next generation phone from Apple will be powered by pissing. It's called iPiss 5T. (5T for 5 times)
The next generation phone from Apple will be called iPiss 5T.
Is this role of theirs in the Cawk industry labourious and crippling?
Then I could understand why the poster above would need to pick up Fagets, and due to the obscurity of this all I can guess that there'd need to be a lot of piss involved after getting all dirty and going down that road of picking them up.
So when do we see real-life "Whiz Mobile" phones available in stores?
Oh, no! You have walked into the slavering fangs of a lurking grue!
The advent of this technology means that, in the future, we'll hear people saying, "I'll be right back, I gotta take a wicked cellphone charge."
Be who you are...and be it in style!
The exact spot on the phone you need to pee on to get the charging happening is (oooooh wait for it)....
THE SLASH DOT!
Its no secret that some of these phone companies have been pissing off their paying customers for years. It should be no surprise that powering these phones with urine has been how they've been doing it.
a Samsung phone stayed alive for 25 minutes—enough to send several texts and make a 6-minute, 20-second call.
It takes 25 minutes to make a 6-minute, 20-second call? Trippy.
systemd is Roko's Basilisk.
Now the government will put a tax on piss...
But, shit, it lasted for 99 hours.
Having it work on microbes takes the phrase "my battery just died" to a new level.
this just takes the piss!
on bluetooth headsets.
Actually this makes sense to me for pubcrawls. Hook up the loo where everyone pisses to a bank of batteries, and let anyone at the bar plug in.
I mean, they're talking about cellular communications but this seems just perfect for P2P. Maybe a little bit messy though.
A better energy source is urine produced by bees instead of human urine. And it's already available today for powering motor vehicles. In fact I just filled my car up with BP.
No left turn unstoned.