Pee Power! African Teens Create Urine-Fueled Generator

In a stroke of ingenuity that could have proven handy during Hurricane Sandy, four teenage African girls have come up with a urine-powered generator which they claim generates one hour of electricity from one litre of urine.

The pee-powered product made its debut at Maker Faire Africa in Lagos, Nigeria, this week. A post on the Maker Faire Africa blog describes the generator's workings in the following words:

Urine is put into an electrolytic cell, which separates out the hydrogen.

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...


[link to news.cnet.com]

Last Edited by ET*Dude on 11/08/2012 11:49 PM