Saturday, October 26, 2013

Using Urine to recharge your devices, can it be achievable

Scientists working at the University West of England (UWE) in Bristol, UK, have figured out a way to recharge a cell phone with Human pee.


The company has been capable of recharge a Samsung mobile by placing the fluid through a surge of microbial fuel cells. Using this process, enough energy is generated to send text messages, browse the Net and even make a brief telephone call.


Based on the scientists in charge, the next stage is to totally charge the phone with pee…I assume washing their hands immediately afterwards.


Dr. Ioannis Ieropoulos has worked for a very long time with microbial fuel cells; he’s believed to be a guru in harnessing power from strange sources. The possibe purposes of his work are very interesting from an environmental point of view.


Dr. Ieropoulos said, “We are very excited as this is a world first, no-one has harnessed energy from urine to do this so it’s an exciting discovery. Using the ultimate waste product as a source of energy to provide electrical energy is almost as eco as it takes.” Eco-friendly technology is, apparently, the good doctor’s main area of curiosity.


The microbial cells work as the energy converter, they turn the natural substance directly into electrical energy, via the metabolism of live bacteria. The electricity is the by-product of the microorganism’s natural life cycle, meaning that as they ‘eat’ the urine, they create power the energy that powers the phone. Now that’s what we call ‘pee as you go’.


Toilet humour aside, the team have engineered a world first, as nothing as large as a mobile battery has ever been charged using this process before.


There is, at the present, no plans to market this tech on a large scale, but maybe someday we could be signing a ‘P’ mobile agreement, the trick, as they say, shall be pissistance.


PS – I’m apologetic about this one. The work and its implications are instead astonishing. All credit to the UWE team. Though, I continuously wanted to do one of those ‘And Finally’ type stories and now I conclusively get to. Please forgive me, one and all.


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http://uk.news.yahoo.com/urine-could-charge-mobile-phones-152225132.html



Using Urine to recharge your devices, can it be achievable

Monday, October 21, 2013

A Recipe For Success!

Nigella Lawson, Jaimie Oliver and Ainsley Harriott may not be your picture of gaming heroes or heroines, but nonetheless baking games are a steadily mounting phenomenon. Enduring the current appeal with games based on real-life (The Sims, Tennis, Bowling etc) all cooking games are about is, clearly, cooking.


 


That could appear useless, given that the real-life equivalent of cooking games (actually baking) is something you virtually have to do every day or else starve, consider just how much fun you would get with cooking games. These video games can teach formulas, quantities, strategies and even some subtleties that pro cooks have to learn the hard way.


 


The Cooking Mama series is one of those principal cooking games about the marketplace. Slightly sexist title aside; the franchise has generated titles for that Nintendo DS and Wii console, (the console which is best for cooking games.) Handheld gadgets were initially the format of choice for launching the first baking games, with Sweet Ange being released all the way back in the days of Game Boy Colour.


 


Popular in Japan and increasingly catching on in the West, cooking games look set to be the next big thing. With cooking games, you’ll learn baking skills without wasting money or making yourself unwell. You’ll learn patience as some baking games let you produce your gaming foodie goodness in real time!


 


Naturally, cooking games contain a component of danger (and not only virtual nut traces). Don’t forget to turn the feast on when playing your cooking games, then go virtual bowling or fishing and go back to find your dinner ruined. Though cooking games may be tempting for a cheaper alternative, you will also discover a cooking games dinner to be far less wholesome than a TV dinner.



A Recipe For Success!