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Four teenage girls in Africa have invented a generator powered by pee | |
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| Anonymous Coward User ID: 19747182 United States11/10/2012 06:36 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | this sounds like the baghdad battery (a device described in the baghvad gita or one of those other vedic texts. yeah i misspelled it probably). that thing was basically a battery powered by the acidity of various substances like wine, vinegar, fruit juice, and id imagine urine would work... problem is for a decent amount of power youd need to make mass relays. but its still free power. and its ancient tech with actual archaeological proof too. electricity in the BCs haha. |
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| Anonymous Coward User ID: 22104307 United States11/10/2012 06:50 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | According to The Next Web’s Emil Protalinski, the urine-powered generator — which can turn one liter of urine into six hours of electricity — works like this. Quoting: BZB [link to grist.org]  Their white teacher did it for them - and electrolysis has been done for at least a hundred years. |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 27477571 United States11/10/2012 06:58 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | BS. This will not work the way they say, There is not enough hydrogen that can be obtained from a litre of urine to run that generator for six minutes, much less six hours. It would also have to be compressed before being fed into the combustion chambre. |
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| The Starbuckian User ID: 1665135 United States11/10/2012 07:03 PM  Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | this sounds like the baghdad battery (a device described in the baghvad gita or one of those other vedic texts. yeah i misspelled it probably). Quoting: Anonymous Coward 19747182 that thing was basically a battery powered by the acidity of various substances like wine, vinegar, fruit juice, and id imagine urine would work... problem is for a decent amount of power youd need to make mass relays. but its still free power. and its ancient tech with actual archaeological proof too. electricity in the BCs haha. Naw, this one splits the urine into hydrogen, nitrogen, and water. The hydrogen gets burned in a generator to make electric power. It isn't a battery described as you've suggested. Religion is 100% reusable. "Good Queen Sarah, protect us from the Black Dog King" - from the play, Dissocia NOTICE: I, free man do not give consent to any individual or entity to monitor, record, otherwise store or use any comments or opinions I make or have made, as leverage against me. I do not consent to any comments or opinions I have now or have made in the past, to be stored or quoted except in the purpose of casual communication & certainly never in a legal or legally binding context. Any comments or opinions I express or have expressed in the past or will express in the future are not legally binding because I never gave explicit consent in the past, do not give consent now & will not give consent in the future to be taken as literal & real. This notification is retrospective & includes all agencies & legal authorities in all governments & in all countries. Anything I have said electronically, textually or verbally must be struck from records forever as I rescind consent to store any communication I have made or will make. I do not consent to any governmental, religious, private &/or esoteric entities to interact with, coerce or quote me in any situation ever, except in a casual & non legally-binding manner without my explicit & verbal consent, recorded with my consent for reference. This should be made by contacting me verbally, in person vis-a-vis or by telephone & a written transcript of any communication must be made available to me to sign & return before absolute consent can be legally binding" Furthermore, I do not consent to be contractually bound by any entity or device, anywhere & at any time without 3rd party, verifiable & impartial legal counsel being provided IN PERSON, (with expenses met by the person or persons proposing contract) to impartially assist me in making a final decision. This decision is only binding after a period of 28 days cooling off period, within which I may cancel all contractual obligations without penalty. Everything I have said, say now or will say in the future is purely for the purpose of entertainment & no offense or legal contract should be implied. Finally.. failure to acknowledge this message & confirm contract implies consent to the conditions set out above & it is implied that this is now legally binding in absentia. |
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| Anonymous Coward User ID: 27471471 Germany11/10/2012 07:03 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | BS. This will not work the way they say, There is not enough hydrogen that can be obtained from a litre of urine to run that generator for six minutes, much less six hours. It would also have to be compressed before being fed into the combustion chambre. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 27477571 This. I was too lazy to type the explanation, though. |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 27471655 United Kingdom11/10/2012 07:05 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | BS. This will not work the way they say, There is not enough hydrogen that can be obtained from a litre of urine to run that generator for six minutes, much less six hours. It would also have to be compressed before being fed into the combustion chambre. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 27477571 not really, it probably works exactly as they say it does, they probably use solar to start the whole process off then switch to generator power ones enough gas has been made to create pressure in the buffer canister. |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 26797792 United States11/10/2012 07:05 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | According to The Next Web’s Emil Protalinski, the urine-powered generator — which can turn one liter of urine into six hours of electricity — works like this. Quoting: BZB [link to grist.org] Their white teacher did it for them - and electrolysis has been done for at least a hundred years. Ha ha ha ha ! That only took alike a minute. Racist asshole is racist. welcome to the 21st century Biatch. |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 27477571 United States11/10/2012 07:12 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | BS. This will not work the way they say, There is not enough hydrogen that can be obtained from a litre of urine to run that generator for six minutes, much less six hours. It would also have to be compressed before being fed into the combustion chambre. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 27477571 not really, it probably works exactly as they say it does, they probably use solar to start the whole process off then switch to generator power ones enough gas has been made to create pressure in the buffer canister. Hydrogen gas has to be highly compressed to run an engine like that on the generator, especially since H will only realistically produce about 65% of the power obtained from the same vaporised volume of gasoline. |
| Red Hot Chilean Pepe User ID: 27475995  Chile11/10/2012 07:22 PM  Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I'll post here what someone posted in the comments section of the news site that is exactly what I think. The only intelligent question remaining here is "How do they power the electrolytic cell?" It's a wonder to see girls in Africa doing this kind of technical proof of concept. By the wat, this is totally technically feasible and has been for a long time, and it would work also with water only, but certainly the salts in the pee catalyze the water electrolysis lowering the energy requirement to release the H. The only downside is that breaking water molecules to get the H takes energy in, anyway, and it has been long discussed if this is an energy efficient process, so the technical feasibility has never been in question, just the economic feasibility. All great truths begin as Blasphemies. G.B.S. GLP is like a diamond mine of information, in the sense that you have to shovel mountains of crap to find the diamonds, but it's still worth the pain. |
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