Urine-powered generator unveiled at international exhibition

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[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

[jakerobins]

Hmmmm finally a way to recycle beer. Now to stock up for the comming Baracklypse....

[GeronL]

They should pay us now

[al baby]

Now all we need is a brd plant

[Jyotishi]

P-power.

[ClearCase_guy]

Someone is going to make a fortune off of this! But ... they’ll probably piss it all away.

[edpc]

So if someone steals the patent, will they be pissed?

[Da Coyote]

And what powers the electrolytic cell for step one?

Just askin’.

[Lonely Bull]

Four African girls have created a generator that produces electricity for six hours using a single liter of urine as fuel.

We finally have a good use for that unending stream issuing from Washington.

[GeronL]

lol!

The sewer lines go right to the power plant. Obama voters might actually become useful.

[HiTech RedNeck]

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.

[Army Air Corps]

Bars could install these in the men’s toilets ...

[GeronL]

prbably creates less power than it needs, right?

[Da Coyote]

prbably creates less power than it needs, right?

Exactly what I was thinking.

[SERE_DOC]

You're confusing urine with methane...

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

[aynrandfreak]

I’m gonna go out on a limb and say it’s a fraud. It’s like perpetual motion claims

[jakerobins]

South Park theory?? LOL!

Step 1: Collect Urine
Step 2: ????????
Step 3: Profit

[OneWingedShark]

And what powers the electrolytic cell for step one?

Well, you need less that 1.5v to power it, (and they are in Africa) so you could use a photovoltaic cell.

[SpaceBar]

Obama made aqueous chemistry exempt from conservation of energy laws. Didn’t you get the memo?

[dfwgator]

[rlmorel]

Now, I am not going to read the article yet.

I have to guess, first.

Is it a urine powered water wheel?

[Never on my watch]

Sounds like it needs a lot more than urine...

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 what is doing all of the pushing?

[Kansas58]

I came here to read the comments.

Some of them really piss me off!

[rlmorel]

Octoberfest!

[Lonely Bull]

You're confusing urine with methane...

Oh, it's a mixed stream. If you're eating, you don't want to know what else is in it.

[Rebelbase]

Asparagus increases the octane.

[bramps]

Urine powered generator? No sh*t!?

[rlmorel]

Well...it WOULD be a perpetual motion machine if they installed it in the bathrooms at Nippers Beach Bar & Grill, Great Guana Cay, Abaco, Bahamas

[GeronL]

lol

[rlmorel]

[ResponseAbility]

Does that mean that now all the MLK boulevards will have their names changed to electric avenue?

[SpaceBar]

I'm looking forward to the pee-car

[rlmorel]

I can see the conversation now:

“Honey...I have to drink all this beer. I know there has been a tornado, and I know we have to begin putting things back together, but...I owe it to you and the kids to keep this generator going. I have to do it. It’s for the children.”

[tbw2]

And what powers the water filter.

[dfwgator]

What’s the difference between beer and a pea?

About twenty minutes.

[ully2]

A whole new meaning to pissing away their
money.

[Flag_This]

"I’m gonna go out on a limb and say it’s a fraud. It’s like perpetual motion claims"

Greetings to you!
My name is Ontulu Mbeke and I represent four Nigerian inventors seeking investors for ...

[cliff630]

“Someone is going to make a fortune off of this! But ... they’ll probably piss it all away.”

What a comedian! I don’t know who laughed louder-—
me or the wife.

Helps get odumba out of our senses-—Thanks

[rlmorel]

Haha...it will be made first in Germany, and they will call it the "Sitzpinkler"

[Gator113]

LOL... we’d still hit the floor.

[bunkerhill7]

It only works when they go pissing in the wind.

[ResponseAbility]

Just make sure you have the polarity correct or its like peeing on an electric fence.

[Revolting cat!]

Unfortunately, and expectedly, it stops working once they get pissed off!

[Army Air Corps]

That is where we place ‘em!

[Right Wing Assault]

Is it a urine powered water wheel?

Great idea! Put one of these outside of every football stadium. Have the guys pee from the upper deck onto the water wheel. Enough juice to run the scoreboard!

[Revolting cat!]

The Belgians have known it for a couple of centuries!

[Right Wing Assault]

And what is doing all of the pushing?

They harness the bladder pressure of guys who haven't peed in a couple days.

[Revolting cat!]

According to the inventors the invention was for the time being an industrial secret. Police are currently seeking the source of the leak.

[Gasshog]

And so I can say, Piss Be Upon It.

and thats a good thing?? :P

[ResponseAbility]

Well if the police get involved it could be a sea change.

[rlmorel]

Hahahaha! This is so entertaining!