..by the end of this weekend I could become a natural energy producing entity myself...(beer and dogs and beans)
Posted on 07/04/2009 12:32:32 PM PDT by aimhigh
Chemistry World reports that the catalyst could not only fuel the hydrogen-powered cars of the future, but could also help clean up municipal wastewater.
Gerardine Botte of Ohio University uses an electrolytic approach to produce hydrogen from urine - the most abundant waste on Earth - at a fraction of the cost of producing hydrogen from water.
Urine's major constituent is urea, which incorporates four hydrogen atoms per molecule - importantly, less tightly bonded than the hydrogen atoms in water molecules.
(Excerpt) Read more at physorg.com ...
Deleted scenes from ‘Back to the Future’.
I’d rather my fuel come from pee than corn.
Funny quote of the day!
So when the wife says,again, Pull over honey I gotta pee, its ok now?
If it really works it’s a great idea IMO. But we’ll still need nuke plants to produce sufficient electricity. I like the idea of such “recycling.”
Will urine absorb CO2?
Proper pre-planning produces p***-profitable results?
REAL good news for China, and it’s 1 billion people who all pee.
Coming soon from the Obama Car Company— The Whizzmobile
I’ll bet the process stinks to high heaven.
Just come out and say it - the car will be p!ss-powered.
If you can really make this work, urine the money!!!
Was walking down the streets of Beijing one day and a little girl (~ 7 years old) just stopped in front of me, lifted up her skirt and started peeing. By the time I figured out what the hell she was doing (while her mother stood and waited) I had to jump to avoid the puddle!
With piss poor performance....
“it takes more energy to break the bond between the Hydrogen and Nitrogen than the energy value of the hydrogen.”
Not necessarily. If you allow urine to sit, it forms even more ammonia, which is very chemically reactive. Just like crude oil is broken down to gasoline, diesel, kerosene, etc. it still has more energy in it than you have to use to crack it.
The jokes just write themselves.
A new area — Tinkle down economics
parsy, who thinks this is what it should have been called all along.
What, you mean Obama can’t overturn the laws of thermodynamics...?
..by the end of this weekend I could become a natural energy producing entity myself...(beer and dogs and beans)
I once saw a woman pull her son’s pants down and hold his rear end over a garbage can while the boy took a dump. This happened on a subway train platform during rush hour.
Hey, the Romans used urine to wash their clothes so why not run cars off it?
The more beer we drink, the more we’d be helping provide an energy source!
It must have been some real whiz kid that came up with this idea!
Ya, we might all be told to drink more in order to produce more urine.
I’ve heard it’s better for you to drink more (non alcholic) fluids because then your kidneys are continually flushing out your system.
Yes, but that's not as much fun. ;-)
(I drink water all day long...I live in the desert.)
Won’t happen any time soon.
Hydrogen can not be stored, economically.
It must be super cooled for any container to keep it for very long, and that takes money and energy!
I do like the idea of splitting water, into hydrogen and oxygen, in a standard auto engine.
There is excess electrical energy in any vehicle, most of the time that the engine is running. Use that excess to split the water molecule.
Send both the hydrogen and the oxygen through the standard air intake system.
There is debate about the effectiveness, but it does seem to work in many test cases.
Somehow, I do not see the public totting around catheter bags to power their vehicles, or even to supplement their gasoline engines.
Regards
So will the well endowed car owners self serve their own tanks?
You don’t say! Do they make you eat asparagus before hand?
Down by the Yellow River?
“Will there be any Full Service stations, or will it be Self Serve only?”
Do you realize how much pee it would take to produce just “your” fuel?? Sure, there’s hydrogen to be had in urea, but it takes one hell of a lot of urea to produce hydrogen in usable quantities.
Winos will have a new income, they won’t be washing the windshields at red lights anymore.
Well there was a Whizzer motorbike.
It gets worse.
After the hydrogen burns, it produces di-hydrogen monoxide. That stuff is dangerous - a real killer.
It alone was responsible for more deaths on the Titanic than all other causes combined.
What about corn that’s been peed on? ;-)
At first I laughed at this, but four hydrogen atoms per molecule. Not bad. Who knew?
They'll have it rigged so that you won't have to, in your 2013 Toyota Peeus.
Who leaked the news of this discovery to the press?
Sure it is bad, as it is the MAJOR greenhouse gas, being 30 times as high as the EVIL CO2. All joking aside, our chemist has discovered an existing process giving only the voltage to start the process and not the amperage/mole of H2. Sewage treatment plants have used the methane offgas as long as there have been such plants. If there is an excess of offgas generators could be used to electrolyze the urine but that would be a SO What. She also does not say how she plans to separate the urine. This idea will get a green (yellow) fuel research grant of a couple million.
barbra ann
“Well there was a Whizzer motorbike.”
You bet, mine had dual carbs and ran on nitro!
Only if you breath it.
Actually it is pretty common. We literally used tons of the stuff to keep ice off of the runways when I was stationed in Plattsburgh NY.
Anyone up north who ever used ice melt has use urea. They look like little white pearls. They could easily fit in a canister and be charged to produce a form of hydrogen gas.
Will “Rest Areas” now be known as “Filling Stations?”
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