Researchers create 'socks' that generate electricity from urine

Researchers at the University of Western England have developed a kind of sock that can generate electricity from human urine. The sock has a network of tubes connected to biological energy cells. The bacteria in these cells survive by processing the nutrients in the urine and thereby releasing electricity.

The power output is not high, and for now, it would not be able to charge the battery of your phone, for example, but already allows you to operate a wireless transmitter. This equipment can be operated every two minutes to send a message to another device.

The sock developed by the researchers at the university in question can accumulate 648 ml of urine, which is moved through the tubes with the user's walking. With each step a person takes, urine is pressed and pushed into the energy cells, which in turn get more nutrients to function.

Generates electricity without wasting electricity

Using pee to generate electricity is not exactly new, as this method has been tried and developed at other times. The difference with this new research is that there is no need to use electricity to pump urine into cells, since the movement of the human body itself is responsible for it.

For now, there is no commercial application yet for anything like this, but the researchers comment that people who test the device do not have to deal with urine. The university delivers everything ready for them to just "dress".

Check out the full research here.

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