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Urine Powered Battery

September 8th, 2005

Researchers at the Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology have created a credit card-size battery that runs on urine as a disposable power source for medical test kits. Urine is rich in ions and ions are what makes electricity electric—or something like that.

Now if we could only hook it up to our cars…

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3 Responses to “Urine Powered Battery”

  1. Bob Milner says:
    September 9th, 2005 at 8:10 am

    If your idea works, you’ll be able to piss around town longer and still have money to burn.

  2. ji0n says:
    September 9th, 2005 at 7:36 pm

    But To Fill A Whole Tank Of A Car would be Too Exhausting. I Sense A bad Case Of Dehydration.

  3. Allen says:
    December 24th, 2006 at 7:32 am

    Urine is a way to produce phosphate, phosphate when combined with two dissimilar metals produces electrical voltage

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