Friday 9 November 2012

Urine-powered generator produces six hours of electricity per bathroom break

We've all heard the expression "haste makes waste," but how about waste making energy?

At the fourth annual Maker Faire Africa in Lagos, Nigeria, a quartet of teenage girls ages 14 through 15 have created a urine-powered generator. This eco-friendly energy source cranks out six hours of electricity for every liter of human bodily fluid by separating the excretion's hydrogen with an electrolytic cell. While this method of human waste disposal seems promising, the device has the potential to be a pee-powered biobomb and will need more than its limited safety measures before you're able to pick one up at your local hardware store. However, if this can help us save a few bucks on our energy bill, then we need to introduce these girls to these guys posthaste.

What do you think of this development?

3 comments:

  1. Go girls...that's cool...

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  2. Urinating arena changed,urine will now get price...

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  3. Sign post will now change, before its "Pls don't urinate here" now will be "Get 5naira if u urinate here"... Iol..naija 4 life.

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