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This is Scientific Americans' 60 Second Science. I'm Karen Hopkins. This will just take a minute.

Do you like working up a sweat, or do you feel like maybe sweat should work for you?

Well, hold on to your pseudoriferous glands, because researchers have designed a device that could someday produce power from your perspiration.

The schwezzy scheme was presented at the annual meeting of the American

Chemical Society in San Francisco. Stranuous exercise generates lactate, the molecule that makes

overworked muscles burn. Athletes sometimes evaluate their fitness by checking the lactate levels

in their blood. To cut down on blood draws, researchers came up with a monitor that could measure

the lactate in sweat.

The device they designed strips electrons from lactate, which creates a small electric current.

The strength of the current reveals the amount of lactate present.

To test the system, 10 volunteers wore the arm patch sensor while they rode a stationary bike,

and the device recorded the current they delivered as they

dripped. Then the researchers thought, what if they could tap into this energy to develop a sort of

sweat-powered bio-battery? Their proof of concept setup topped out at only about four micro watts of

juice, not even enough to run a watch. But with better electronics, exercising in the future

could make dirty clothes and some clean energy.

Thanks for the minute. For Scientific Americans' 60 Second Science, I'm Karen Hopkins.

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