Scientists Powering Batteries with Soda, Tree Sap 216
BobB writes "St. Louis University researchers have concocted batteries fueled by almost any kind of sugar, from tree sap to flat soda, and that could be used to power everything from computers to cell phones. Their thinking: If sugar can jack up the human body, why not electronics?"
Re:Sugar's nasty property #1: (Score:3, Funny)
-- (reading what I typed. Dear god, just shoot me now.)
Awkward.. (Score:4, Funny)
"Sorry mom, I'll have to call you back later, my battery's about to die. I promise I'll call back just as soon as I've shagged my phone.."
Re:Sugar's nasty property #1: (Score:1, Funny)
Further research (Score:3, Funny)
Next up, caffiene for your cell phone, and cocaine for your PDA!
Re:Sugar's nasty property #1: (Score:5, Funny)
I'm right here, you insensitive clod!
My clock runs off a potato. (Score:4, Funny)
Sometimes I wonder if the Slashdot editors are really junior high school drop-outs...
Obligatory Simpsons Reference: (Score:0, Funny)
Re:Sugar's nasty property #1: (Score:3, Funny)
1)In Soviet Russia, the naked and petrified Natalie Portman meme overloads your hot Meept! grits and posts Open Source Caveman Ogg first.
2)????
3) Profit
I can see thousands of angry customers.... (Score:3, Funny)
Taking that a step further... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Sugar's nasty property #1: (Score:4, Funny)
The birds chirping, dew on the grass, notebooks, PDAs and iPods taking flight...
Re:Stupid. (Score:3, Funny)
Creating machines that could "potentially" run off fuel made from dead humans might be a "potentially" bad thing.
Of course to be fair, you never have to run faster than the flesh eating machines... Just faster than anyone else you happen to be with.
Just what need, moody computing (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Jacked up. (Score:3, Funny)
That was simple.
'Course, we're dealing with the same folks who still manage to spill liquid on their laptops, water plants over their (expensive) TVs, etc. On the other hand, there's probably no hope for these folks, so we should be ok with the above.
Re:Nannobots, Finally !!! (Score:3, Funny)
One of the obstacles is how to power them.
The answer - make them absorb blood shugar!
Woah, slow down there. You've obviously never had a yeast infection...