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."


Source:http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/urine-powered-generator-unveiled-international-exhibition-234718329.html

good one though ..just hope it wld b affordable to d masses.

but wtf?
did dey say urine? as in urine?
tinz keep getting messier

abbeycial: good one though ..just hope it wld b affordable to d masses.

but wtf?
did dey say urine? as in urine?
tinz keep getting messier

Yes ordinary urine

if this invention is looked at critically by our business people,i foresee a staggering profit for them

aariwa: if this invention is looked at critically by our business people,i foresee a staggering profit for them

yeap

But is hydrogen not in water? Why not use water instead of urine? The other time it was cow dung how can one go one a urine hunt to power a generator?

kpozite: But is hydrogen not in water? Why not use water instead of urine? The other time it was cow dung how can one go one a urine hunt to power a generator?

maybe urine is more sustainable

kpozite: But is hydrogen not in water? Why not use water instead of urine? The other time it was cow dung how can one go one a urine hunt to power a generator?

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Lol @ bolded

lf ds is realy true, it means we Nigerians are steadily moving forward in Technology. I hope with d support of our leaders & encouragement of d ppl we will still do something better than these. I hay u 4girls- well done!

This is basically a hydrogen powered generator.

WOW! This is good news.



These yeye mods won't move this to the front page now.. If its a trashy post about 1 yeye celebrity wearing a revealing dress, they'll zap if to FP.. SMH

Kudos to d student who present d project. As a scientist wht i can say abt dis so called new invention is dat dier is more dan wht is said abt working principle of ths generator nw as urslf d following questn 1) wht is d percentage of hydrogen in urine. 2)remember urine is a mixture nt a cmpound does each component librate it hydrogen under d same cndition? 3) what ar d rxn by product and wht happned to them 4) is dis product enviromentaly friendly? 5)is deir ''free'' hydrogen in urine. 6) equation 4 d reactn 7)wht ar d cnditn 4 d rxn?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7oMIR_MoH0

School girls in Nigeria developped a Generator Powered by URINE