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- 6 Uses For Pee That You Probably Didn’t Know About Thu, 4 Dec 14, 12:00amFor Heating The Barn House in Japan's Memu Meadows is an award-winning experimental dwelling heated by urine. Designed by Keio University's Co+Labo department, it shelters two humans and two horses, producing heating and...
- UK Scientists Create World’s First Pee-Powered Cell Phone Thu, 18 Jul 13, 2:01amScientists at Bristol Robotics Laboratory first harnessed the power of pee two years ago, and now their research has taken a giant leap forward. The team has created the world's first system based on microbial fuel cells...
- EcoBot III is a Human Waste-Powered Robot that Cleans Wastewater! Tue, 4 Dec 12, 2:22amEcoBot III is a lightweight self-sustaining robot designed to clean wastewater! Powered by Microbial Fuel Cells (MFCs), the robot runs off human waste, using it to produce electricity necessary for performing its cleaning...
- First Self-Sustaining Biomass Bot Eats, Excretes, Runs for a Week Wed, 21 Jul 10, 3:19amThe premise of any science fiction movie worth its salt is robots operating without human supervision for long stretches of time. (Those pesky robots do get into trouble, don’t they?) Researchers at the UK’s Bristol...