Urine Luck If This Battery Dies

from the not-that-kind-of-juice dept

Physicists in Singapore have developed a new battery fueled by human urine, intending it for use in disposable health-care kits for rural areas. The mind boggles at all of the other potential applications, though, and as Cellular-News points, out, could bring a whole new meaning to "emergency" phone calls. Think of all the products it could power, like the Sony PisSP or the Apple iPeed.

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    puns

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    Anonymous Coward, Jan 13th, 2006 @ 9:39am

    puns puns puns PUNS PUNS TOO MANY PUNS AAAAAAGGGGHHHHHH!!!!!


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    Re: puns

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    Anyomous_alabama, Jan 13th, 2006 @ 9:50am

    Thats TOO many puns for Friday the 13th. Its just not good karma.

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    awesome!

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    yoyo, Jan 13th, 2006 @ 10:03am

    so now when i pee on my phone, no one will complain of the smell! its POWER!!

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    Gunpowder

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    Not Dorpus, Jan 13th, 2006 @ 10:10am

    It’s that how they came up with gunpowder (i.e. Saltpeter), many moons ago – pissing on manure?

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    The Matrix

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    Cary, Jan 13th, 2006 @ 10:18am

    We really could be batteries!!! Had any Deja Vu lately?

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    Re: puns

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    groan, Jan 13th, 2006 @ 10:18am

    Please post these to your sister site, pundirt.com--kthanx

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    Re: Gunpowder

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    ZOMG CENSORED, Jan 13th, 2006 @ 10:21am

    Gun powder & batteries... Everything needed to wage a decent war can be found within your bladder.

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    Food?

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    Joe snuffy, Jan 13th, 2006 @ 10:31am

    I'm still waiting for urinal cakes to actually taste like cake :(

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    woah

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    Anonymous Coward, Jan 13th, 2006 @ 10:52am

    think of this: the first urine-powered porta-pottie, which harnesses the power of your urine to pump your waste into a seperate holding tank, preventing all those funky smells in the john!!!

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    No Subject Given

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    Sree, Jan 13th, 2006 @ 10:59am

    what will they think of next???
    computers that run on pee???

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    I'm just recharging it!

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    Anonymous Coward, Jan 13th, 2006 @ 11:07am

    Well, next time you drop your phone in the pisser you've got a good fallback excuse...

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    Re: No Subject Given

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    B, Jan 13th, 2006 @ 11:09am

    The next design is a space ship that runs on pee. Just get ur pee on and cruise through space.

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    Peephone?

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    Not Dorpus, Jan 13th, 2006 @ 11:10am

    Urinal phone anybody?

    A whole new meaning to “The call of nature”

    A whole new way of powering drunken phone calls at 3:00 AM

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    Re: Peephone?

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    Anonymous Coward, Jan 13th, 2006 @ 11:32am

    nice.

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    It won't work...

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    Posterlogo, Jan 13th, 2006 @ 12:12pm

    ...if you drink enough water to keep those ions diluted. You know the old saying... if it's yellow, charge the battery. If it's clear, flush it down.

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    Enter the Matrix

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    Anonymous coward, Jan 13th, 2006 @ 12:27pm

    Based on the above startling scientific discovery and subsequent capitalization of this majorscientific advancement, the Wachowski brothers have decided to redo the Matrix. The new movie will use human unrination as the main power source for the "Source". Keaneu Reeves could not be reached for comment and has rumored to have been replaced by long time fetish Porn Star I.P. Daily.

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    Re: Food?

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    ehrichweiss, Jan 13th, 2006 @ 12:43pm

    hehehe. A famous magician(among magicians anyway) by the name of Jay Sankey has a routine where he fakes eating one of those. He's a very sick human and whatever you do, don't make eye contact..hehe. Anyway, it's one of the best gags I've ever seen.

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    hell yea

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    Justin Dale, Jan 13th, 2006 @ 4:02pm

    hmm makes sense considering urine is alot like the types of chemicals in batteries. now they just have to figure a way to power a car with it

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    Re: Enter the Matrix

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    Sohrab, Jan 15th, 2006 @ 2:24am

    the huge matrix fan that I am, lmfao

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    stoned, May 7th, 2006 @ 10:59am

    i just farted

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