It’s in freakin’ National Geographic and not The Onion, I swear!
How much urine would it take to run your car on it?
The energy isn’t coming from the urine; it’s coming from the metals.
“Yeah. Yeah. No, the project’s almost done. Yeah. Thursday at the latest. No. Yeah, the focus group tested well. [beep beep] What? Oh, hell. Listen, boss, can I call you back? My phone’s dying, I gotta go piss on it.”
And just imagine electric cars. Batteries low? Just pull over, get out, open the “gas” tank, insert and relieve yourself.
Women may find this slightly more difficult.
Yes, but “A Metal Powered Battery” is nowhere near as an eyecatching thread title.
I’m waiting on the methane-based power cell that I can poop into.
Huh, maybe a kink of specialized funnel? I don’t believe a road-side catheter insertion would fly, might draw too much attention. This may require some thought.
There’s a joke involving a siphon in there somewhere.
Oh yeah? Is that the newest Nokia? Yeah, you customized the hell out of it…it even looks nice…with the small size…and the buttons…and the screen and such…
you know…
it’s not bad…
FOR ME TO POOP ON!
Brings a whole new dimension to “pissing your time away online,” thatsfersure.
This is awesome news. I haven’t had a chance to read the thread yet because my battery’s running low, so I’m just going to go for it.
How long after I piss on my laptop should I have to wait before it starts charging?
Depends. Is it hourly or does it offer a flat rate?
This could usher in a golden age of on-the-job beer drinking.
Not to piss on thread or anything, but this sounds extremely similar to the seawater powered batteries used in emergengy strobes in military flight gear for a long time now. The urine (or seawater) is just the electrolyte for the battery. Not a new concept, just a new twist on it.
Some years ago, an IBM R&D magazine published an article by an IBM researcher about using various bodily functions to provide the power to run a wearable laptop computer design.
The article did NOT cover using urine-generated hydro-power for this, though the concept was proven years ago by Professor Richard P. Feynman (later Nobel Prize winner).
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I have always wondered why I see so many pictures of guys exposing themselves in front of their computer monitors.
It all makes sense now.
They are simply recharging their batteries.