nopopo batteries: hey pee, I see urine my battery!
January 8th, 2009 comments (9) stumble it! digg it! by: lambert v.
Do you remember the urine filtering machine that Kevin Costner used in Waterworld? Do you remember Waterworld? What was I talking about again? Oh yes, batteries. Aqua Power System has developed batteries that can be recharged using fluids such as beer, apple juice, cola, saliva and urine.
Aqua Power System is of course a Japanese company. They call their leaktastic invention NoPoPo, short for No Policeman don’t arrest me I’m Powering my batteries. Actually it’s Non-Pollution Power. Both sound stupid but mine is funnier. Inside each NoPoPo battery is a combination of magnesium and carbon that generate electricity when mixed with certain fluids. The batteries come with a pipette so you can inject fluids into the battery.
According to James Sherwood of Register Hardware, the life span of an AA alkaline battery falls between 1700 and 3000 mAh (milliamp-hours), while an AA NoPoPo battery lasts only up to 500 mAh. But Sherwood also says that existing zinc-carbon batteries have the same life span as the NoPoPos, so we’re not looking at some blue sky technology here. I do hope they refine and extend the technology so that it can power larger devices such as phones and PMPs. Would you buy an iPee?
Ready to whiz in your batteries? You can grab a pair over at HimeyaShop for $15 (USD).
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January 8th, 2009 comments (9): stumble it! digg it! by: lambert v.
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500 mAh???? That’s p1ss poor!!!!!!
poor!? it’s your urine powering that thing!
Urine and beer eh? If you add vomit to that list then alcoholics need never suffer from remote control death again…
Useful for Wii remotes.
No pollution? what a crock. Its not your urine that powers this thing, its the magnesium. The urine is just an electrolyte to allow the current to flow.
Magnesium metal is not found in nature, it has to be refined using a lot of energy, which means greenhouse gases etc. If these batteries are as good as a zinc/carbon battery, they probably have the same carbon cost, only much less convenient, and much more expensive.
True, this is actually worse for the environment because it’s using an inefficient conductor (your p1ss) between two electrodes which take more energy to make than regular batteries. Environmental FAIL.
and whan you’re breathing you although polute air! So STOP it NOW or global worming will kill you
Global worming, eh? I think I remember seeing that in DUNE.
Its not 500 mAmh , it powers products that require 150-600 mAh , i.e. pretty much standard household appliance like flashlights , radios and remote controls.
Dofference is , teh NoPoPo will power a low drain device LONGER than an alkaline because an alkaline will use too much power for a low drain device which results in wasted energy , the NoPoPo only feeds the product the amount of amp is requires…. on top of that it has an indefinite shelf life indeed , so sounds like a winner to me.