US Army discovers new way to provide electric power on the battlefield
The way armed forces go into battle in the future may have been transformed forever.
This is due to the fact that Army scientists in the US are developing new state-of-the-art military weapons and tanks which can be powered by soldiers' PEE.
The current requirement is for soldiers to carry more than 80 pounds on a typical 72-hour mission, and more than 15 pounds of that is batteries.
In future war zones,the chances are that soldiers will be using their own urine to produce electricity for the devices they need on the move.
These equipment would include weapons drones, night vision devices, laser rifles, laptops and communications equipment.
Urine will also be used to power fuel cells on much larger devices - including military vehicles and entire bases.
Army scientists are exploiting the hydrogen in the urine to yield power.
They get the hydrogen by adding the ARL team’s special aluminium nano-powder to the urine that sparks a chain reaction that releases the hydrogen.
Researchers have said that in under three minutes, one kilogram (2.2 pounds) of the powder can produce 220 kilowatts of power from urine.
Fuel cells work like batteries as they contain chemicals which are then converted into electricity.
With hydrogen fuel cells, the process of converting hydrogen and oxygen into water produces the electricity.
But fuel cells are different to batteries in the sense that they never go totally dead or need to be recharged.
As long as there is hydrogen harvested from urine or elsewhere, the fuel cell will deliver endless electricity.
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