• Bill Gates Funds a Smartphone Battery That Runs on Piss
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[URL]http://www.businessinsider.com/bill-gates-funds-pee-smartphone-battery-2013-12[/URL] [quote]The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is on a mission to improve human sanitation, particularly in areas of the world that don't have a reliable water supply. Much of that effort is about [URL="http://www.gatesfoundation.org/Media-Center/Press-Releases/2013/08/Reinvent-the-Toilet-Challenge-Debuts-in-China"]reinventing the toilet[/URL] but the foundation has also challenged scientists to find ways to turn human waste into something useful. Enter Bristol Robotics Laboratory in Bristol, England. Scientists there have developed technology that [URL="http://www.brl.ac.uk/researchthemes/bioenergyselfsustainable/urine-tricity.aspx"]converts human urine into electricity[/URL] that can be used to powered a smartphone, as spotted by the [URL="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/12/23/bill_gates_theres_no_water_in_the_toilet_so_im_gonna_wee_on_your_phone/"]Register's Jasper Hamill[/URL]. The scientists have demonstrated their wee-powered battery charging a smartphone. They've been awarded a grant from Bill Gates' foundation to develop the tech further.[/quote] Suddenly dropping your phone in the toilet is actually a good thing.
bear grylls would be proud
A piss-powered phone sounds like something you come up with while, appropriately, totally pissed.
This has to be a joke right?
[QUOTE=varg666;43297418]This has to be a joke right?[/QUOTE] Why should it be?
This would actually be really useful. My phone often comes with me when I'm on the piss
Gotta take a piss, do it into your phone, relieve your bladder and charge you phone. Brilliant.
oh i thought he was funding those kenyan girls who created a piss powered battery that was really nothing more than a still, a battery and a hydrogen fuel cell, the piss had nothing to do with it really. still one would think there would be more productive methods of making power like...instead of using exotic ceramics, use a solar cell? not to mention, you have to make it so that the people who you are making it for want to actually use it. a bunch of colleges created all these different stoves for african villages but the villagers wouldn't use them because they couldn't see the fire
[QUOTE=Bazsil;43297425]Why should it be?[/QUOTE] Sorry I can't explain it, cause I'm speechless.
[QUOTE=Gwoodman;43297463]Gotta take a piss, do it into your phone, relieve your bladder and charge you phone. Brilliant.[/QUOTE] why use urine when jews are so much more disposable. :v: [highlight](User was banned for this post ("Awful post" - Craptasket))[/highlight]
[QUOTE=Sally;43297515]why use urine when jews are so much more disposable. :v:[/QUOTE] lol good one dude haha
It'd be great actually, not only would you be able to relieve yourself, but you'd also be able to charge your phone. Not really sure how much people would want to touch your phone if it smells like pee though.
[QUOTE=Sally;43297515]why use urine when jews are so much more disposable. :v:[/QUOTE] I actually did Nazi that one coming.
[QUOTE=Ripvayne;43297546]lol good one dude haha[/QUOTE] Thanks I needed to feedback from a fellow shit poster to make sure it was a good one
i like how bill gates has been having fun with his money lately
[QUOTE=Sally;43297515]why use urine when jews are so much more disposable. :v:[/QUOTE] That was so edgy my hand got lacerated.
[QUOTE=varg666;43297418]This has to be a joke right?[/QUOTE] Since when has Bill Gates joked around about these kinds of things? Piss and phones are serious business.
So I can but my phone in the urinal and relieve myself and charge my phone. Neat. Now just not make piss stink and it's a win win.
Oh great, just what we needed. Another outlet for perverts and sociopaths to get off. Think of how this would be mistreated. The horror that comes from even thinking about that.
given the properties of plain ol' urine I'm surprised this wasn't put in motion sooner. and I should note: [quote]that converts human urine into electricity that can be used to powered a smartphone[/quote] it's used to power a battery/generator, you're not literally filling a phone with piss [QUOTE=betafoshes;43298004]Oh great, just what we needed. Another outlet for perverts and sociopaths to get off. Think of how this would be mistreated. The horror that comes from even thinking about that.[/QUOTE] I'm 90% sure the only people looking for ways for this to be mistreated are paranoid idiots who don't know how technology works, trying to get offended on other peoples' behalf. Cool it
[QUOTE=dai;43298296]it's used to power a battery/generator, you're not literally filling a phone with piss[/QUOTE] It's still weird how they're so oddly specific about it powering smartphones when it could have so many more useful appliances.
[QUOTE=EvacX;43298433]It's still weird how they're so oddly specific about it powering smartphones when it could have so many more useful appliances.[/QUOTE] yeah, in places where it'd be a necessity/benefit I doubt everyone's got an iphone. Still, it's a good bridge to explain it to the mass media, saying "this is powerful enough that it could do this relatable thing"
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[QUOTE=FunnyStarRunner;43297783]That was so edgy my hand got lacerated.[/QUOTE] Oh no a common type of joke that everyone thought was funny before but uh oh it's [I]overused[/I] better stop laughing at it. You also miss my point if you say "I never thought it was funny" because ok cool but lets face it some people (maybe even a majority) would have thought a joke like that was funny at one point. That aside, it's pretty neat that we can turn something basically useless into something pretty efficient, no need for that waste to go to waste.
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