Scientists develop pee-powered battery

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Scientists develop pee-powered battery
Urine activation seen useful for cheap disposable healthcare tests

By Bjorn Carey
LiveScience
Updated: 6:50 p.m. ET Aug. 16, 2005


Scientists have developed a way to turn pee into electricity. And there's plenty where that came from, they point out.

Cheap, disposable, and renewable, urine-powered batteries may be the perfect power source for disposable healthcare test kits called biochips, the researchers say.

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