Posted on 03/16/2016 8:28:21 AM PDT by palmer
A new kind of fuel cell that can turn urine into electricity could revolutionize the way we produce bioenergy, particularly in developing countries. The research, published in Electrochimica Acta, describes a new design of microbial fuel cell that's smaller, cheaper and more powerful than traditional ones.
The world's supply of fossil fuels is being depleted, and there is increasing pressure to develop new renewable sources of energy. Bioenergy is one such source, and microbial fuel cells can produce it.
In their study, researchers from University of Bath, Queen Mary University of London and the Bristol Robotics Laboratory describe a new design of microbial fuel cell that overcomes two limitations of standard microbial fuel cells: their cost and low power production.
"Microbial fuel cells have real potential to produce renewable bioenergy out of waste matter like urine," said Mirella Di Lorenzo, corresponding author of the study from the University of Bath who holds a doctorate in Industrial Biotechnology. "The world produces huge volumes of urine and if we can harness the potential power of that waste using microbial fuel cells, we could revolutionize the way we make electricity."
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Piss on it.
So if I pee on something is it supposed to glow? It’s not happening. Is there something wrong with me?
Maybe you need to drink more beer. ;-)
Can I hook one of those thingies onto my Harley?
It would really help on those L-O-N-G rides! :-)
Heh, privacy stalls in his or hers “recharge-rooms”.
Someone needs to figure out how to turn stupidity into electricity. Unlimited power for all!
Notice how there is no mention of how much energy is produced with a quantity of urine, say a gallon. Is it a 100 Watts or a nano-watt?
Doesn’t matter, the left will soon have us saving our urine and putting out with it’s own recycle bin weekly.
Toyota to introduce new hybrid that runs on urine. The Peeus.
Beer as fuel. Who could have imagined?
Beer as fuel. Who could have imagined?
Damn that’s awesome marketing.
I wonder if they have the name trademarked?
You win today's Internet.
So my 1000 gallon septic tank can be modified to replace solar panels....neat...:^)
The “Peeus”....when you REALLY want to ‘piss off’ the oil companies!
(My wife came up with the slogan “The Peeus..either you’re out or urine!”)
If they can get everyone to ‘P*ss up a rope’, as the urine then flows down the rope, they can also harness the kinetic energy through a micro turbine attached to a micro generator. This should add to the electrical energy produced. We should then rightly be able to tell the ‘greenies’ to ‘Go, p*ss up a rope!’ and they shouldn’t be insulted.
The world’s supply of fossil fuels is being depleted, .............. we should have been out of them around 1990 according to Carter. It was the year that the world would be out of oil.
Great, so I get free electricity but my beer budget goes up ten-fold...
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