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Bristol scientists use urine to charge mobile phone Scientists have developed a way of charging mobile phones using urine.
You Can Now Charge Your Smartphone With Your Pee
Need to charge your phone? “Urine” luck…
“I need to pee.”
“My phone is dying.”
Dr Ioannis Ieropoulos, from the Bristol Robotics Laboratory, claimed harnessing power from "the ultimate waste product" was "a world first".
"One product that we can be sure of an unending supply is our own urine," he said.
"By harnessing this power as urine passes through a cascade of microbial fuel cells (MFCs), we have managed to charge a Samsung mobile phone."
The scientists believe the technology has the future potential to be installed in bathrooms to harness the urine and produce sufficient electricity to power showers, lighting or razors as well as mobile phones.
'Smart toilet'
Charge Your Phone With Urine? Scientists Say It's Possible Using Microbial Fuel Cells
Scientists Found a Way to Charge Your Smartphone With Urine
Lose the power cord, soon you might be able to charge your phone with -- your pee.
Yep. You read that correctly, scientists in England have developed a way to transform urine into electricity.
Using a special machine called a “microbial fuel cell” that contains waste-eating electro-active bacteria, scientists at Bristol Robotics Lab have created a way to charge phones and power some lights using urine. So how does it work? The small bacteria consume the waste out of urine, and as a result, electrons are left over as a byproduct. By being put through an electrical circuit that the scientists created, these electrons create electricity.
A good amount of electricity, in fact. Only two liters of urine can produce 30 to 40 milliwatts of power -- enough to slowly charge a smartphone, power a phone’s display or power lights for portable toilets.
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The world first has been developed at the University of the West of England in Bristol by Professor Ioannis Ieropoulos and his team.
Professor Ieropoulos said: "We are excited to announce several global firsts - this development was possible by employing a new design of microbial fuel cells that allowed scaling up without power density losses.
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