Culinary pleasure, however, is not an edible battery.
Italians are also known for pizza. The energy amount of about 250 kilocalories contained in a medium-sized meat pizza corresponds to about 0.29 kilowatt hours. Illustration picture. Henri Kärkkäinen
Researchers at the Italian Institute of Technology developed a new type of battery from food. Activated carbon, beeswax and seaweed used in sushi have been used to make the power source, which looks like an Omar candy.
So it’s not a pizza-like culinary pleasure.
According to Science Alert the battery could work for the necessary time and then melt away along with the rest of the food. The battery could power various electrical devices that examine the health of the digestive tract, such as micro cameras.
– In the future, edible circuits could be used to study, for example, how food is stored in organs, the foundation’s senior researcher Mario Caironi tells.
Neither is any power pack battery, as the battery prototype has operated at 0.65 volts and produces a current of 48 microamps for 12 minutes.
The download has been successful for 12 download cycles. However, it is presumably difficult to recharge a melted battery.
The study was published Advanced materials in science journal. The pizza kilowatt-hour calculation indicated in the illustration has been used convertlive website.