Wednesday, August 17, 2005
Urine Batteries: The Next #1 Tech Breakthrough
This pee battery breakthrough looks promising:
If you really, really liked this -- or even really, really hated it -- there's lots more:
But don't flush your other batteries just yet. No one is really sure yet where this technology is going. Counting on big market success is still a wee bit premature.
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.
