Posted on 11/12/2012 6:56:29 PM PST by jakerobins
Four African girls have created a generator that produces electricity for six hours using a single liter of urine as fuel.
The generator was unveiled at last week's Maker Faire in Lagos, Nigeria, by the four teens Duro-Aina Adebola, Akindele Abiola, and Faleke Oluwatoyin, all age 14, and Bello Eniola, 15.
So how exactly does the urine-powered generator work? •Urine is put into an electrolytic cell, which separates out the hydrogen. •The hydrogen goes into a water filter for purification, which then gets pushed into the gas cylinder. •The gas cylinder pushes hydrogen into a cylinder of liquid borax, which is used to remove the moisture from the hydrogen gas. •This purified hydrogen gas is pushed into the generator.
And as for delivering the fuel itself? Well, we'll leave that up to the consumer
(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...
They should pay us now
Now all we need is a brd plant
P-power.
Someone is going to make a fortune off of this! But ... they’ll probably piss it all away.
So if someone steals the patent, will they be pissed?
And what powers the electrolytic cell for step one?
Just askin’.
We finally have a good use for that unending stream issuing from Washington.
lol!
The sewer lines go right to the power plant. Obama voters might actually become useful.
P power is intriguing, but I’d want to know if it consumes other material such as zinc metal. There’s no need to use P if its power is really coming from the consumption of an easily oxidized metal.
Bars could install these in the men’s toilets ...
prbably creates less power than it needs, right?
prbably creates less power than it needs, right?
Exactly what I was thinking.
just sayin.
The whole, what comes out of Washington.
The end result is we get pissed of, or is is pissed on?
Perhaps a duality of outcomes.
None of which are good for us/US
I’m gonna go out on a limb and say it’s a fraud. It’s like perpetual motion claims
South Park theory?? LOL!
Step 1: Collect Urine
Step 2: ????????
Step 3: Profit
Well, you need less that 1.5v to power it, (and they are in Africa) so you could use a photovoltaic cell.
Obama made aqueous chemistry exempt from conservation of energy laws. Didn’t you get the memo?
Now, I am not going to read the article yet.
I have to guess, first.
Is it a urine powered water wheel?
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