Urine-powered generator unveiled at international exhibition
 

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.

The Maker Faire is a popular event across the African continent, drawing thousands of participants who travel to Lagos to show their inventions and other practical creations.

As the Next Web describes it, the Maker Faire is intended to highlight creations "that solve immediate challenges and problems, and then works to support and propagate them. Put another way, this isn't just a bunch of rich people talking about how their apps are going to change the world."


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I piss on this invention!

Fuckin awesome honestly.

What powers the electrolytic cell to separate the hydrogen from the water, or in this case, the urine?

Excrement news !

:1orglaugh :thumbsup

Cool :thumbsup

plug it in the wall:thumbsup

Great idea, How much electricity though I wonder.
Saw a thing the other day with people cooking with gas, drawn off a composting toilet.

Light and cooking sorted.

http://makerfaireafrica.com/2012/11/...red-generator/

From the picture it looks like the cell might be a car battery with the water/sulfuric acid removed.

You'd want to be sure about containing the resulting hydrogen pretty carefully