Urine

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Melbourne’s Food & Wine Festival To Be Pee Powered?

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5:00PM February 1, 2012 | Alex Kidman

The last time I got the bill at a restaurant, I thought they were taking the urine, but not quite in the way that one restaurant at Melbourne’s Food & Wine festival will shortly be. More »


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Scientists Turn Urine Into Power

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2:00PM November 10, 2011 | Alex Kidman

It sounds like someone’s taking, the… well… urine on this one, but scientists in the UK claim that they’ve managed to convert urine into workable fuel cells. More »


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Would You Drink Urine Sports Drinks? NASA Wants Astronauts To

7:30PM July 7, 2011 | Kat Hannaford

This so-called “sugar drink” will be made from urine using “forward osmosis” technology, and rather than providing astronauts with all the sugary nutrients they might need, it’s been invented as a way to recycle human waste and keep rocket-ships light. More »


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Fukushima Residents Peeing Out Radiation

10:37PM June 27, 2011 | Sam Biddle

The spread of radioactive material just kilometres away from their source has its consequences. It doesn’t just sit in the dirt – it finds its way into human bodies. And now it’s in their pee. More »


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Call Of Nature Leads To Loss Of Millions Of Litres Of Drinking Water

9:03AM June 21, 2011 | Kelly Hodgkins

It’s the “yuck” factor that led the City of Portland Oregon to literally flush 30 million litres of water out of a city drinking reservoir after a man mistakenly urinated in the body of water. More »


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Water Plants With Your Pee

2:20AM June 21, 2011 | Casey Chan

I’ve peed on a ton of bushes before and I’m pretty sure I scarred those bushes forever. But! If I were to use this filtration system that pumps pee from a urinal to water plants… I’d totally be helping the environment. More »


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Colour The Walls With Your Pee

11:00AM May 3, 2011 | Casey Chan

I’ve seen some crazy urinals in my day but none top the potential addicting awesomeness of this thermochromic urinal. More »


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This Whiskey Was Made From Urine

11:00AM September 5, 2010 | Casey Chan

I’m really into whiskey, but I think I’ll pass on tasting Gilpin Family Whisky. Why? Because this single malt whiskey is made from urine. Specifically, it’s made from the sugar rich urine of elderly diabetics. More »


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Yellow Gold: How Your Urine Could Save The World

4:40AM August 25, 2010 | Hazel Muir - New Scientist

Why let your waste go to waste when it could be powering your mobile phone – or even your car? More »


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Bio-Manufactured Bricks Are Made From Bacteria, Sand, Urine

11:00AM May 18, 2010 | Rebecca Boyle - Popular Science

An American architecture professor in Abu Dhabi has come up with a new generation of sustainable bricks – grown by bacteria using sand, calcium chloride and pee. More »