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Would a fart powered phone charger work?

Asked by Ltryptophan (12091points) March 1st, 2010

What type of apparatus would be required for capturing the farts? How much phone charge/fart? If you invent this do you get infinity carbon credits? Could you “capture” and charge a cell, then “recapture” like a fire in the hole?

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lucillelucillelucille's avatar

I certainly wouldn’t be able to make any calls ;)

Captain_Fantasy's avatar

And so it’s come down to fart jokes….

Alright, to harness the potential energy of human expulsions, combustion is required and that’s never a story that ends well for the expeller.

More energy could be generated by harnessing that static electricity conducted by the act of wearing corduroy pants. The sound you make while you walk is the sound of renewable alternative energy.

Ltryptophan's avatar

expeller makes me think of olive oil.

dpworkin's avatar

You’d need a cow.

janbb's avatar

@dpworkin Think it would work great in Australia and New Zealand. All those sheep gotta be good for something.

Trillian's avatar

They did it in Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome.

skfinkel's avatar

What a charming image.

Sarcasm's avatar

@Trillian That’s different. Master Blaster control Bartertown.

Trillian's avatar

@Sarcasm Yecch. He can have it. He can take some grammar lessons while he’s at it, stop speaking of himself in the third person, and get off the big guy; he’s grossing me out.
Out of morbid curiosity, have you ever wondered how much stink was NOT because of the pigs during filming? I mean. Who wears leather in the freaking desert for gods sake?

cockswain's avatar

Man I hope so. I could probably power a laptop.

Shuttle128's avatar

Technically you could use a fuel cell like device….though there really isn’t that much methane in flatulence anyway.

Soysoy1997's avatar

I’m sure somehow it could work, but based off of the question you are asking you don’t seem like the most intellegent person on the planet. So I’m assuming you couldn’t make one.

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Ltryptophan's avatar

I think my setup will also make an ass out of you and me, so thanks for assuming.

Pandora's avatar

I think the smell surrounding your phone would certainly make for less phone calls. I think it would probably be more productive to make string and some paper cups and talk that way.

stratman37's avatar

When I was in grade school (in the early 70s) I looked up “fart” in the dictionary and it said “an explosion between the legs”!

Can you imagine?

I know a school dictionary back then might have tried to be less graphic, but didn’t we know about the “anus” in the early 70s?

That definition more accurately describes the male ejaculation, doesn’t it?

Trillian's avatar

@stratman37 well technically, the legs in question ought to be female, and not belonging to the “exploder”. And since the “explosion” sometimes takes place in my, or others’, mouth, or way up inside my, or others’, anus, (I looked it up!) then no. A male would have to be pretty much solo, and would have to let go at the time of explosion.
Hell, even then, it’s going to be “over the abdomen” rather than “between the legs”.
Sigh, now I’ve got myself all worked up…..

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My reply was removed :( oh well. That kind of sucks though, I get why. Haha.

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