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

[thackney]

It sounds like regular water could be used to achieve the same result.

Only if you want to spend more energy than you produce.

[Have Ruck - Will Travel]

Oh great! Another “Green” (or maybe yellow in this case) technology for Odumbo to sink a trillion dollars or so of taxpayer money, that we don’t have, into.

[jakerobins]

It’s only “Green” energy on St. Pattys Day! LOL.... Maybe then it would replace Earth Day and we could tax credits for Home Brewing Beer??

[Have Ruck - Will Travel]

(Recovering from laughing my *** off)

Okay, you have a point about St. Patty’s Day. I hadn’t taken the thought out that far. Although I’m not sure the poor grid could handle the overload on that day, I’d be more than willing to make my donation. Several times even.