Pairs Of Socks that Generate Electricity (Uses Urine a fuel)
If we talk about the television Specialist Bear Grylls, he sometime demonstrates drinking urine as a last resorts to stay alive but it could also have other emergency users.
If anyone having socks full of urine and bacteria is a good thing. Yes that’s right, a pair of socks like a generators which was designed by robotics professor Loannis Leropoulos’s and his team. They were able to turn locomotion and human waste into electrical power with the small bit of help from microbes.
That’s the idea behind socks pairs developed by Loannis Leropoulos’s team at the University of the west England in Bristol, UK. A human walking in a socks forces a bladder’s worth roughly 648 milliliters of urine which contain in the container of the system. According to his team at university, this was the first time ever in a history anyone has combined microbial fuel cells with wearable technology. Indeed these pair of socks produced enough electricity that will power a specialized wireless transmitter sending out the message “World First Wearable MFC”.
What was the idea?
Aiming to come up with a self-sufficient, wearable device that will work anywhere without giving additional power.
The main idea was to create a system (self-contained system) that generate power, and were looking forward toward survivalist scenarios. Loannis and his team developed an energy generate system that’s works by combining the force which human apply when their feet touch the ground with urine powered fuel cells. This system allowing engineer’s to generate enough electricity to send radio signals to a receivers.
This idea for foot power was inspired by Flintstones reruns, by the simplified circulatory system of fish, which is a single closed circuit powered by pumping motion of the heart. Fish’s use muscles for circulating their blood around the body to keep a fresh supply of oxygen available.
Instead of muscle, this system will use flexible silicon’s tube, which wrap under the heels and connect to bendy MFCs near human ankles. Each step taken by the human wearing this socks squeezes and releases the pump the urine around.
BUT the question which is not been answer yet..!
However it’s not clear that how would once get the urine directly into the system (electricity generating socks)?
How you are going to pee in your socks?
Future and where it can be use
This system could save the life of the hiker lost, and use solar panel or extra batteries. This technology seems to have great future because it is a part of wider exploration of the ways to get energy from human waste and would bring light in refugee camps.
