A pair of socks fuelled with urine pumped by the wearer’s footsteps has powered a wireless transmitter to send a signal to a computer.

A combination of urine and socks could one day be used to power mobile phones and other portable and wearable devices, scientists believe. A pair of socks fuelled with urine pumped by the wearer’s footsteps has powered a wireless transmitter to send a signal to a computer.

Experts said it “opens up possibilities” for using urine to power wearable devices . Scientists at the Bristol BioEnergy Centre at the University of the West of England embedded the socks with miniaturised microbial fuel cells (MFCs).

The 24 individual soft MFCs inside the socks were supplied with fresh urine and circulated around by the human operator walking. Normally, such systems would rely on a mains
powered pump to circulate the urine over the MFCs but this experiment relied solely on human activity.

The manual pump was based on a simple fish circulatory system and the action of walking caused the urine to pass over the MFCs and generate energy.

In the experiment, published in the journal Bioinspiration and Biomimetics, soft tubes were placed under the heels of the socks to ensure regular fluid push-pull by walking.

This system successfully ran a wireless transmission board, which was able to send the message “First Wearable MFC” every two minutes to the computer-controlled receiver.

Professor Ioannis Ieropoulos, who led the research, said: “Having already powered a mobile phone with MFCs using urine as fuel, we wanted to see if we could replicate this success in wearable technology,” he said.

“We also wanted the system to be entirely self-sufficient, running only on human power - using urine as fuel and the action of the foot as the pump.

“This work opens up possibilities of using waste for powering portable and wearable electronics.

“For example, recent research shows it should be possible to develop a system based on wearable MFC technology to transmit a person’s coordinates in an emergency situation.

“At the same time this would indicate proof of life since the device will only work if the operator’s urine fuels the MFCs.”

MFCs use bacteria to generate electricity from waste fluids - tapping into the biochemical energy used for
microbial growth and converting it directly into electricity.

Scientists say this technology can use any form of organic waste and turn it into useful energy without relying on fossil fuels, making it a “valuable” green technology.

Bristol BioEnergy Centre has recently prototype urinal in partnership with Oxfam that uses pee-power technology to light cubicles in refugee camps.


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Really

Oh so because I want to power a mobile with urine and socks I will now dress like mad man wey miss road when I can easily buy a 30000 capacity powerbank

southniyikaye:
Oh so because I want to power a mobile with urine and socks I will now dress like mad man wey miss road when I can easily buy a 30000 capacity powerbank

I wonder o! When power bank never dey extinct.

really? no I ain't using dat.

its still open to refinement and perfection

give it time

Electrocute yourself!

Last Days collabo

No body should call me if it happens o.. Dry sticks are for sale to help

NA SO CRASE DEY START[b][/b]

southniyikaye:
Oh so because I want to power a mobile with urine and socks I will now dress like mad man wey miss road when I can easily buy a 30000 capacity powerbank

Duh! ENIAC (pictured below), The first general-purpose computer was very large, the size of an average sitting room, wires everywhere and clumsy to use but now you can get smaller,smarter and powerful computers that fit the size of your palm to use. My point: Most technological successes start off as being absurd and stupid but as time goes after several modifications,improvements and upgrades you get a/an device/invention that people like you will spend your savings to buy.

janzguy:


Bristol BioEnergy Centre has recently prototype urinal in partnership with Oxfam that uses pee-power technology to light cubicles in refugee camps.

Nice. See people making use of their brains to find solutions to alternative energy supply and rid the world of dependence on fossil fuels, the ones on this thread are busy mocking them. Tomorrow you wonder why Africa is still lacking in technological advancements!

kevoh:

Duh! ENIAC (pictured below), The first general-purpose computer was very large, the size of an average sitting room, wires everywhere and clumsy to use but now you can get smaller,smarter and powerful computers that fit the size of your palm to use. My point: Most technological successes start off as being absurd and stupid but as time goes after several modifications,improvements and upgrades you get a device/inventions that people like you will spend your savings to buy.



Nice. See people making use of their brains to find solutions to alternative energy supply and rid the world of dependence on fossil fuels, the ones on this thread are busy mocking them. Tomorrow you wonder why Africa is still lacking in technological advancements!

ogbeni before you start to foam for mouth,I was only being sarcastic .am a Biosystems engineering graduate so I can even expantiate more on the theories that gave birth to such invention HALA

southniyikaye:
ogbeni before you start to foam for mouth,I was only being sarcastic .am a Biosystems engineering graduate so I can even expantiate more on the theories that gave birth to such invention HALA

Keep your sarcasm to yourself. As a Biosystems engineer you should know better when to support such researches on a public forum than spreading your stupid sarcastic virus-filled comments that easily infects ignoramuses that have already plagued this thread and others that will come.

kevoh:


Keep your sarcasm to yourself. As a Biosystems engineer you should know better when to support such researches on a public forum than spreading your stupid sarcastic virus-filled comments that easily infects ignoramuses that have already plagued this thread and others that will come.

oga dem send you to me? No allow me make u my prayer point for church o,the consequence won't be palatable believe me.

southniyikaye:
oga dem send you to me? No allow me make u my prayer point for church o,the consequence won't be palatable believe me.

Oh please do, add Sango, Sanponna and Amadioha join am!

end time urine powered stuffs.