Is Sweat the New Form of Renewable Energy We’ve All Been Waiting For?

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Takeaways:

  • A group of Japanese scientist have tested a biofuel cell which could generate electric power from lactate chemicals in the wearer’s sweat.
  • This would mean that wearable technologies would be powered by sweat and would no longer rely on batteries and would help make the industry more sustainable.
  • “We managed to drive a commercially available activity meter for 1.5 hours using one drop of artificial sweat and our biofuel cells,” explains study leader Professor Isao Dr. Shitanda. […].

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