Sep 11 2007Rechargable Batteries Run On What?
Urine! That's right folks, the NoPoPo (!!!) batteries from Japan can be recharged using your own bodily fluid (or any other that's primarily water). When the charge dies in these things you use that little baster that it comes with to charge them back up. Allegedly the magnesium and carbon react in a magical way to produce more energy. No word on price or how you're supposed to get urine into the little squeeze tube, but I imagine not easily. Just don't get lazy and try to cut out that step by peeing directly in your electronics. You'll end up not charging anything but your personals. ZAP!
Rechargable Batteries Run On What? [therawfeed]
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Reader Comments
1. FIRST - September 11, 2007 2:09 PM
FIRST
2. this is absolutely awesome - September 11, 2007 2:10 PM
i'm ordering some.
3. Fredex - September 11, 2007 2:51 PM
To begin with.... saying 'FIRST' and then not actually typing anything.... /clap
Anyway, this is the sort of thing that could only come out of Japan, as for the pipette used to fill it, actually, no I am not going to make any one of the comments that I am thinking of sheerly because each one scares me in a new and exciting way.
4. Quin - September 11, 2007 3:02 PM
I'm not so concerned with how to get the urine into the battery... I'm more concerned about how you keep it from coming OUT of the battery.
5. aDS - September 11, 2007 3:06 PM
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6. Erika - September 11, 2007 3:07 PM
You don't need pee to charge this battery. You just need water. The urine comment came from someone joking around that in an emergency, they can use their own pee to recharge the battery since it'll take almost anything with H2O in it.
7. nominus - September 11, 2007 3:26 PM
Wouldn't be hard to get the urine to the cell, all you would have to do is create a syphon and draw in the small amount of naughty member juice needed. I just doubt these would be cheap enough to be cost effective. For me at least.
8. flareback - September 11, 2007 3:28 PM
I'm gonna stay away from those.
9. forumridr - September 11, 2007 5:59 PM
It'll be simple for Asian males to recharge these, considering their pricks are just slightly smaller than the tube that is pictured.
10. RandomNigel - September 11, 2007 10:50 PM
Lol. I think I'll stick with the "any other that's primarily water," seeing as I'm a girl.
Could I use blood? I gotta do something with all that. It's starting to leak from the crawl space under the house, and from the freezer.
11. vagface - September 12, 2007 3:26 AM
nice forumridr. your comical genius has blown me away. funny, AND intelligent. not to mention original.
making racist comments about penis size must mean u have a huge one. i bet your popular with all the ladies.
glad u got your daily boost of self esteem. sounds like you need it.
12. Anon - September 12, 2007 9:03 AM
@ forumridr, lol, win.
@vagface, Asians not from the mainland will tell you that we have tiny shit dicks. I'm only half, so it's not my problem, luckily. By the way, if you can't take a small fukken race joke, gtfo of my internets and go back to your secluded little circle. People joke on race, even their own. If you can't handle it, maybe YOU'RE the racist.
@OP, I think that's pretty f***ing cool.
13. bigorangehippo - September 12, 2007 2:37 PM
This technology is a modification of an old one. I remember back in grade school, (18 years ago), they announced a battery that was charged by urine. I think it was Exxon Mobil or some other fuel company that soon bought out the technology for a measly 2 mil and it never again saw the light of day.
It sucks that sometimes corporations will kill something so beneficial to society and the environment just so they could allow their investors to buy one more automated coffee roaster at the Sharper Image.
I wouldn't be suprised if this battery just suddenly disappeared.
14. Tyler - September 12, 2007 7:49 PM
Good excuse to piss on things!
15. TheHarshTruth - September 13, 2007 4:05 AM
I think a more appropriate name for this product would be YesPeePee.
16. rico - November 8, 2007 6:44 AM
According to this article, he batteries can last up to 10 years, now that's something new
http://japansugoi.com/wordpress/eco-friendly-nopopo-liquid-powered-batteries/