[SteveH]

[No, I am not making this up.]

[FairOpinion]

TAlk about "renewable energy", LOL.

Just picture people "refilling their batteries".

[Enterprise]

Well then, we have solved the energy requirements for automobiles now. Just get several batteries, string them in parallel, and fill 'em with pee juice.

[CzarNicky]

I would never have to log off FreeRepublic

[SteveH]

I can no longer sit back and allow Communist infiltration, Communist indoctrination, Communist subversion, and the international Communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids... "

-Base Commander Ripper

[USFRIENDINVICTORIA]

"A drop of urine generates 1.5 volts, the equivalent of one AA battery, says Dr Ki Bang Lee of the Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology."

This is an interesting article; but the quote is somewhat misleading. Volts are a measure of electromotive force -- not of the energy delivered. Different types of batteries have different voltages -- AA is a size not type.

[al baby]

peeing ping

[Khurkris]

"mmm...time for Homer to recharge his batteries"

[advance_copy]

can't power laptops yet

The new dot-com boom... internet service in rest rooms.

[flying Elvis]

I have a better suggestion. Someone should invent a urinal with little water wheels in them. The faster we got them to spin, the more energy we generate.

[DainBramage]

IPODDY

[R. Scott]

Not exactly a new idea. The two centuries old Voltaic pile would work just as well with urine as with brine.

[HEY4QDEMS]

You see Gilligan, the uric acid from your pee powers the radio.

[davisfh]

"A drop of urine generates 1.5 volts, the equivalent of one AA battery, says Dr Ki Bang Lee of the Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology."

Dang!! I could'a just electrocuted myself.

Interesting name that Ki Bang Lee.

[Celtic Conservative]

New energizer pee pee batteries:

They just keep going and going and going....

[BallyBill]

I consider this a "load of crap". ;-)

[PackerBronco]

In the not too distant future ...

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Man looks at his watch. "Oops, gotta go ..."

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[robertpaulsen]

"Urine batteries ... could theoretically keep a digital watch working"

You want to know what time it is?

Well then, excuse me while I whip this out.

[CPOSharky]

A drop of urine generates 1.5 volts, the equivalent of one AA battery, says Dr Ki Bang Lee of the Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology.

AA, AAA, A, C, a lot of watch battereies generate 1.5 volts. How many ampere-hours (or milliampere-hours, microampere-hours, or even nanoampere-hours) will this battery generate?

(BTW, I'm pretty sure it is a 'cell' not a battery. Most all cells generate about 1.5 volts.)

[RandallFlagg]

Okay. WHO put, "GOLDENSHOWER," in the keywords...AGAIN?!

[RandallFlagg]

I wonder how many drunks who passed out in their cars with their lights on (and a dead battery) will try whizzing on their batteries to attempt a, "Jump Start."