Posted on 10/19/2017 3:03:28 PM PDT by yoe
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Oct. 19, 2017 - 3:54 - Fox Firepower: Allison Barrie with a look at how Army scientists are extracting Hydrogen from urine and using it to power fuel cells. Something that could be a great advantage to military personnel.
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Antifa has already weaponized urine.
I hate to ask, how does the urine get delivered to where it needs to go?
Just like (black)powder manufacturers had previously been extracting nitre from urine for the purpose of making gun powder.
ya’ll let me know when you can extract pure lead from pee.
I prefer to cast my own bullets, when possible. :^)
When the Laboratory and the Lavatory are in the same room.
If you’re reduced to that, urine a lot of trouble.
Most soldiers have a built-in delivery hose.
A silly fad. The salinity and other properties of urine vary widely and is far too variable to be a serious piece of reliable military equipment, when a sensible solution is to simply have the required few hundred milligrams of pre-measured salts built-in to unit, and mix on the field with gosh, let’s see... water.
Always a short a batteries, out in the field.
Wasn’t urine used in some gas masks in WWI?
IF they refine the process then perhaps they’ll be some practical applications at wastewater treatment plants.
Will a commander’s order to ‘move out’ become ‘piss off?’
Yes they did, but we aren’t talking about what essentially amounts to a moist towel to cover your face here. The compliment to comparison is contrast. Burning tree sap was once used to sink ships, but times change.
Military engineering for worst case scenarios is hardly new. The soviets had a troop transport vehicle during the cold war capable of operating on extremely poor quality fuel, even vodka.
MFCs (microbial fuel cells) may be a better technology:
https://www.livescience.com/54588-pee-powered-fuel-cells-cheap-electricity.html
...but AntiFa stole that from Raider Nation.
They call upon Lance Corporal I.P. Freely.
Yeah there’s a history, going way back to when chimps learned to fling poo.
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